Nigeria now has 91 registered political parties, with the registration of 23 more parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The commission, in a notice today, Tuesday, asked chairmen and secretaries of the newly registered parties to pick up their certificates at its headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.
This was even as INEC also extended the ongoing continuous voter registration (CVR) exercise by two weeks.
The commission had said it would suspend the exercise on August 17 until after the 2019 general election.
Here are names of the newly registered parties:
Advanced Alliance Party APP
Advanced NigeriaDemocratic Party ANDP
African Action Congress AAC
Alliance for a United Nigeria AUN
Alliance of Social Democrats ASD
Alliance National Party ANP
Allied People’s Movement APM
Alternative Party of Nigeria APN
Change Nigeria Party CNP
Congress Of Patriots COP
Liberation MovementLM
Movement for Restoration and Defence of Democracy MRDD
Nigeria Community Movement Party NCMP
Nigeria For Democracy NFD
Peoples Coalition Party PCP
Reform and Advancement Party RAP
Save NigeriaCongress SNC
United Patriots UP
United Peoples Congress UPC
We The PeopleNigeria WTPN
Yes Electorates Solidarity YES
Youth Party YP
Zenith Labour Party ZLP
