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Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by dre11(m): 5:02am On Oct 10, 2019 |
The Senate, yesterday, said that it would reduce the number of political parties participating in elections in the country from the current 91 to five through legislation. The Senate stated this at a meeting with the leadership of INEC led by its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, in the National Assembly, Abuja. https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2019/10/senate-to-reduce-political-parties-from-91-to-5/ 12 Likes |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by desoul2004(m): 5:07am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Finally FTC. I dedicate it to all the men of goodwill. 22 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Nobody: 5:08am On Oct 10, 2019 |
We are nothing but pencil in the hands of the almighty. "gbam gbam, gbam gbam" "this is super story" 31 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by IBILEmayweather(m): 5:08am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Good move, we are tired of all those irrelevant parties... 40 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by HaryoBamex(m): 5:09am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Lol 91 parties.. Wetin we dey use them do? 17 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Ugo4hotish(m): 5:09am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Confirm 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by YorubaNinja: 5:09am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by realestniggah: 5:09am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Please do.. Cut down the corruption |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by DuBLINGreenb(m): 5:09am On Oct 10, 2019 |
No, We are soo stoopid we forget history too easily this kind of arrangement has been done before why are we running in circles? they want to hijack democracy, with 91 parties any Nigerian can run for office whether you win or lose na you sabi, but once it is 5 only the ruling party or the 2 biggest parties will run everything going as far as appointing leaders(stooges) in the other 3 parties and frustrating those parties. Consider also we have free and fair elections but with or without taking bribes the leaders of the five parties agree to a candidate everybody in Nigeria opposes maybe say Bob risky being our president so they all adopt risky as candidate what do we do? We the people are only making the parties more powerful and us more powerless. For now we have seen cases however few where unexpected parties came out victorious, one or two parties cannot control all 89 other parties. once rigging stops we will enjoy this 91 party system better than that 5 party system. Some parties require you to pay 200million for ticket others are 20thousand with only 5 parties the price will only go higher meaning only the rich can run for office. Bet me those 5 parties will cause Tribalism, religious intolerance, etc by their candidates and their rhetorics. We saw it when Nigeria started with NCNC= igbo peoples party NDP=hausa people party and that Action group= yoruba people party. These 3 will dominate the rest of us even more than before and sadly only one will keep producing unqualified leaders like it happened before. We will go back to a time when we had political parties named 1. Zamfara commoners party 2. Midwest Democratic front 3. United middle belt Congress 4. Northern people's party Because they want the support of people especially illiterates who will blindly support any poopu or party as long as it has the name of their tribe or region or even religion attached to it. It may even be less subtle the party will have any name but once it has 2 Northern muslims leading it will be viewed by the north as the party to support because of that reason alone. Let's assume those are the 4 parties allowed to remain along with APC or PDP imagine what a Nigeria that would be, imagine the marginalisation, don't get me wrong marginalisation exists look at the NigerDelta 100% of Nigeria oil yet no electricity no jobs nothing but this would be on an even grander scale putting us in a position whereby the electorate is forced to pick between 5 types of poison. There is no how you will not see one you like out of 91 dresses/cars/food there is no how. 51 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by holyDaniel: 5:10am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Pls remove APC and PDP 41 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Omoluabi16(m): 5:11am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Why now? Something is really fishy about this move. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Nobody: 5:12am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Problem with this new law is simple....it runs against the principle of freedom of association. Many parties are going to be heading to court to stop this. Not everyone is into PDP or APC . 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by successking401(m): 5:12am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Good move |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by cenaman(m): 5:13am On Oct 10, 2019 |
APC all the way, Buhari amaka. 5 Likes |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by bizza45: 5:13am On Oct 10, 2019 |
if dem like make dem reduce am to 3, na d same rubbish go still dey happen |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Sammyashol(m): 5:13am On Oct 10, 2019 |
holyDaniel:Lols, the members of the both party will still move to the new parties, all the same. 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by MobilityExpress: 5:13am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Rubbish move. They say 2 heads are better than one but it's like these people are collectively dull. The Senate of all people should be defending people's fundamental rights to freedom of association. They should ordinarily know Freedom of Association is our God-given rights. Nigeria democracy is just another dictatorship in disguise i swear, but them no even dey hide am again. The Senate should be scrapped. As for solution to too many political parties, very simple, the FG via INEC should stop funding them. Let them fund themselves, and then you see those redundant political parties will die off on their own, die a natural death and fade away. As long as INEC keeps funding political parties billions, then the forming of many political parties will continue to be a business for some people, a cash cow for quick money. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by bouncing3: 5:15am On Oct 10, 2019 |
But na Two we get before nah 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Oblongata: 5:15am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Make dem Kuku reduce am to 2, we sabi say na apc vs pdp 1 Like |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Jabioro: 5:16am On Oct 10, 2019 |
It is an obvious mess up matter..you have ninety one political party..is that not confusion on her own not talk of performance..We should not have more than 4 or 5..is enough..Is a part of confused we have on electorates.. |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Raphsays: 5:16am On Oct 10, 2019 |
It's a good one. It will help eliminate time wasters |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by seunmsg(m): 5:17am On Oct 10, 2019 |
They need to amend the constitution to do what they are proposing. The electoral act cannot solve the problem because it is a constitutional matter. 4 Likes |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by UnknownJr: 5:20am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Out of the 91, only APC & PDP people dey vote for pass. What are we even doing with 91 political parties sef?. 4 Likes |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by solmusdesigns: 5:22am On Oct 10, 2019 |
i support this... many Africans abuse any kind of laws that give freedom, give them freedom of association, they start forming cult and several useless Parties give them freedom of speech and watch them start insulting people and defaming peoples characters with lies .. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by youngsahito(m): 5:26am On Oct 10, 2019 |
This is a right talk in the right direction...5 strong political party would be better for us than wasting money printing 91 names. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by dochenaj: 5:39am On Oct 10, 2019 |
We could have independent contestants as opposed to that number of parties. There should be a required number of unique registered members before a party can be allowed to contest in any election. We could also place rules to curtail cross carpeting from one party to the other. No one should be allowed to contest under a party if they have not been a registered member of said party for a specified amount of time (for instance 2 years). All these folks that lose primaries in one party and the next thing, they are flag bearers of another party would not happen. Then we should try to make the voting process electronic, it would save cost in the long run and to a great extent make the voting process more transparent. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by olafour(m): 5:40am On Oct 10, 2019 |
As they are Reducing Political Party, they should reduce the number of Senate and number of members of House representatives from each state also... 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by favour32(m): 5:43am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Let us subscribe to a senator per state, three house of rep.members per state and reduce the huge costs of governance. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Ekwensu1: 5:44am On Oct 10, 2019 |
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Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by EagleNest(m): 5:56am On Oct 10, 2019 |
Very good move. May be they could cut more slacks and just leave it at 7 political parties. This will allow for more dynamics and flexibilities. Independent party should be allowed too for people that choose to be alone instead of going through political parties to vie for electoral positions. Thinking loud, a referendum should also be planned and conducted to reduce the number of senators/HOR. This will cut cost and trim off over bloated legislative arm of government. |
Re: Senate To Reduce Political Parties From 91 To 5 by Osemekedgreat3(m): 6:01am On Oct 10, 2019 |
It's a welcome development it will form a formidable for against any failed ruling party,I pray it comes to pass. |
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