INEC Registers 23 New Political Parties

the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has registered 23 new political parties bringing the total number of parties to 91.

Some of the parties include The Advanced Alliance Party, Liberation Movement, Save Nigeria Congress, United Patriots, Youth Party, We The People Nigeria, among others.

See the full list below.

1	Advanced Alliance Party	AAP
2	Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party	ANDP
3	African Action Congress	AAC
4	Alliance for a United Nigeria	AUN
5	Alliance of Social Democrats	ASD
6	Alliance National Party	ANP
7	Allied People’s Movement	APM
8	Change Nigeria Party	CNP
9	Congress Of Patriots	COP
10	Liberation Movement	LM
11	Movement for Restoration and Defence of Democracy	MRDD
12	Nigeria Community Movement Party	NCMP
13	Nigeria for Democracy	NFD
14	Peoples Coalition Party	PCP
15	Reform and Advancement Party	RAP
16	Save Nigeria Congress	SNC
17	United Patriots	UP
18	United Peoples Congress UPC	UPC
19	We The People Nigeria	WTPN
20	YES Electorates Solidarity	YES
21	Youth Party	YP
22	Zenith Labour Party	ZLP
23	Alternative Party of Nigeria	APN

According to INEC, the newly registered political parties will receive their Certificates of Registration from the Commission on August 16, 2018, at its headquarters.

Meanwhile, the deadline for the Continuous Voter Registration was extended by two weeks.

According to INEC the deadline for registration was initially fixed for August 17  in order to have enough time to make all necessary preparations before 2019 but after several appeals by Nigerians, the extension was considered.

National Commissioner and Member, Voter Education, and Publicity Committee, Mohammed Kudu Haruna said as at August 11, the Commission had registered an additional 12, 139,061 new voters and the exercise will continue in all the designated registration centers until August 31.

Registration will take place every day between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm except on public holidays.