The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday exercised its constitutional powers to deregister political parties that failed to meet established criteria.
At a press conference in Abuja, Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, announced that following an assessment of the 92 political parties in Nigeria, the commission decided to re-register 74 of them.
He said the affected parties failed to meet the criteria provided for by section 225A of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which include: “breach of any of the requirements for registration as a party, failure to win at least 25 percent of the votes cast in one state in a presidential election or 25 percent of the votes cast in one local government area, and failure to win at least one ward in a Chairmanship election, one seat in the national or state assembly election or one seat in a councilorship election”.
By the end of its assessment, INEC said only 18 political parties survived, including one registered after the elections and another that obtained a court order to avoid being deregistration.
Here are the remaining 18 parties:
| S/No. | NAME OF PARTY | ACRONYM |
| 1. | Accord Party | A |
| 2. | Action Alliance | AA |
| 3. | African Action Congress | AAC |
| 4. | African Democratic Congress | ADC |
| 5. | African Democratic Party | ADP |
| 6. | All Progressives Congress | APC |
| 7. | All Progressives Grand Alliance | APGA |
| 8. | Allied Peoples Movement | APM |
| 9. | Labour Party | LP |
| 10. | New Nigeria Peoples Party | NNPP |
| 11. | National Rescue Movement | NRM |
| 12. | Peoples Democratic Party | PDP |
| 13. | Peoples Redemption Party | PRP |
| 14. | Social Democratic Party | SDP |
| 15. | Young Progressive Party | YPP |
| 16. | Zenith Labour Party | ZLP |
| 17. | Action Peoples Party | APP |
| 18. | Boot Party | BT |
