You deregister 8I of them and register another 200 before 2023
The criterias for registering political parties by INEC should be checked. Enough of this NONSENSE.

Any political party that wants state and national recognition must first show performance 25% at local and ward elections in at least one State. If not they die a natural death through deregistration. It was the late (SAM) Gani Fawehinmi (RIP) that fought for the free for all political party registration back in the days at the Supreme Court.

There's no need to have more than 5 political parties even. Anyone who can't fit in any can simply delist self from being a member of political party

All they'll do is simply register again as a different party by 2022. Political parties in Nigeria are nothing but business centres

Long overdue, wasting of time and scarce resources. They only registered them for monetary purposes by stepping down for a popular candidates at the event of elections. That's why rejected votes were too many in 2019 general elections.

StarUp:
Make it 12 so that each the 36 states can have an option of choosing 3 each.

Whats this one saying

Sluvist:
I only see 25 in the election slip, where did the others hide at that time?

That means you did not vote during the presidential election. May be you just voted in a gubernatorial one.
Only parties with candidate at that particular constituency and level are displayed on the ballots.

Most of the parties does have the number my secondary school social clubs had.

Christ embassy cell units gan Garner more votes than many of them did.

and should not register more. just di register all of them who did not meet up jare

They will get deregistered but when general election is around the corner they will re-register again albeit with another name.
The circle goes on like that.

INEC appears to be failing in all its responsibilities.

B3sty:
Better...
Long overdue, just imagine some Mushroom Political Parties with just Less than 2,000 Total Votes in the Just concluded Elections.
Infact, Let just Run a Two Party System Jare.

No let's leave it at 10, it will enrich our democracy and electoral process

Sluvist:
I only see 25 in the election slip, where did the others hide at that time?

The ballot paper for presidential elections had over 80 party logos represented. Look at this link form INEC:
https://www.inecnigeria.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ballot_paper_sample.jpg

Not all fielded candidates for governorship and other elective offices.

Ismerhill:
INEC should please deregistered them to 5, APC, PDP, SDP, AAC and LP... and please don't register new nuisance anymore

APGA has a sitting governor,what does SDP,AAC and LP have now ?

Gratefulhrt03:
Why can't INEC just cut it down to two, A two party system with the option of independence is good just like in the US. Politics should be done through ideological inclination and not ethnical inclination. Just leave the whole thing to APC, PDP and one party that serves as intermediary between the two of them. This will breed new ground for political brilliance and not the joke of politics and leaders we at the moment.

Freedom of association. Remember it is in our constitution?

It will be dangerous in a supposed democracy for a government agency to have the power to regulate free association of citizens.

Be careful what you wish for.

In fact by the provisions, YPP will stay because it has a senate-elect, ZLP won one constituency in Nasarawa Sate.

odomanis:


APGA has a sitting governor,what does SDP,AAC and LP have now ?

When elections come again we will see 100 parties all to confuse the electorates. Over 70 parties in the last election? Why? Inec and scam

Ismerhill:
INEC should please deregistered them to 5, APC, PDP, SDP, AAC and LP... and please don't register new nuisance anymore

APGA has more seats than AAC, SDP and LP combined. They have over 12 federal reps, over 25 state reps, 1 Senator and 1 Governor.

It has won 5 Governorship elections, came second in Katsina 2011, Nasarawa 2015, Abia 2015 and came third uncountable number of times.

It is the third biggest party in Nigeria today and would have been bigger if not for that Drunkard.

Them just make ballot paper look like nws paper set. too much p/parties. Naija sef

Beautiful

But the wailers will tag it witch hunting. Buhari and APC will be nail for such.

Ismerhill:
INEC should please deregistered them to 5, APC, PDP, SDP, AAC and LP... and please don't register new nuisance anymore

Like someone mentioned earlier now, APGA has more seats than AAC, SDP and LP combined. They have over 12 federal reps, over 25 state reps, 1 Senator and 1 Governor.

It has won 5 Governorship elections, came second in Katsina 2011, Nasarawa 2015, Abia 2015 and came third uncountable number of times. It also won Imo State in 2011 with Okorocha before he decamped.
Now tell me, what has AAC, LP and SDP achieved in relation to that.

Don't just list names for listing sake. Make your research. Even YPP has more electoral positions than AAC.

Multi party system is the best. Imagine Awara ( the AAC governorship candidate that is giving Wike sleepless night ) breaking into APC or PDP, that's almost an impossicant.

With two party system, we will end up recycling Parents and their children as our leaders.

I support Multi party system.

My take on this is that, after INEC deregister them, they will all come back and register with a new name before the next election, so the best thing to do is, make the registration of Parties very stringent, that will keep pretenders away from registering new parties. We don't need more than 5 parties in Nigeria.

kingthreatz:
APC, PDP, APGA, SDP, Labour Party and Accord.

These parties have lived up to expectation for the past 2 elections. Thats okay.

wetin accord win...

kjhova:


Freedom of association. Remember it is in our constitution?

It will be dangerous in a supposed democracy for a government agency to have the power to regulate free association of citizens.

Be careful what you wish for.

freedom is not total...thats why we need regulations to prevent abuse and reduce cost....us wey get two dominant parties and few others still get liberty for her system...

banio:
Multi party system is the best. Imagine Awara ( the AAC governorship candidate that is giving Wike sleepless night ) breaking into APC or PDP, that's almost an impossicant.

With two party system, we will end up recycling Parents and their children as our leaders.

I support Multi party system.

who is awara he shd go and win state rep...multi party with a threshold if you must remain as a party u ll show a decent performance to remain ok...sm of d parties dat contested for president don't have gorveno or legislative candidates and u call dst seriousness...

kingthreatz:
APC, PDP, APGA, SDP, Labour Party and Accord.

These parties have lived up to expectation for the past 2 elections. Thats okay.

Add YPP.

Gratefulhrt03:
Why can't INEC just cut it down to two, A two party system with the option of independence is good just like in the US. Politics should be done through ideological inclination and not ethnical inclination. Just leave the whole thing to APC, PDP and one party that serves as intermediary between the two of them. This will breed new ground for political brilliance and not the joke of politics and leaders we at the moment.

what ideology does APC and PDP have? I understand what you are saying, but Nigerian politics and politicians don't have an ideology and would just jump on any party that they can contest from.

banio:
Multi party system is the best. Imagine Awara ( the AAC governorship candidate that is giving Wike sleepless night ) breaking into APC or PDP, that's almost an impossicant.

With two party system, we will end up recycling Parents and their children as our leaders.

I support Multi party system.

Awara koh Akara ni. Not only sleepness night na watching cinema night. Where did that name Awara originate from? Do you know that AAC in Rivers state is called "Amaechi Adopted Children"? Your Awara did not make wahala to campaign. Three days before the election Amaechi APC in Rivers to vote AAC. Who knows AAC? Truth told is that Wike won the election by a moon slide. APC lost because of unnecessary power play in Rivers state. Bros let me ask you. Where did Awara find the mouth to ask INEC to declare him governor? Can he win the house of assembly seat in own area?