The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC says it is set to begin de-registering a number of political parties in the country.
INEC regretted that a number of them did not get the amount of votes in the last general election, as required by law.
Nigeria has ninety-three political parties at the beginning of the year, but only seventy-three fielded presidential candidates in the general election.
As the ballots were counted in February, it was clear that the battle was between two political parties, the All Progressives Congress APC, and the People’s Democratic Party PDP.
About eighty-five percent of the political parties were left to share just thirty thousand votes; and that is out of the twenty-nine million votes cast.
With their poor outing, the Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to unregister them in line with section two-two-five of the 1999 constitution as amended.
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