WED JUNE 25 2025-theGBJournal| The Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent Electoral Commission (INCE), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said on Wednesday that the Commission, as at Monday, 23rd June 2025, received letters of intent from 110 associations that wish to register as political parties.
He said the Commission is diligently processing the requests in line with the procedure outlined in the law as well as our Regulations and Guidelines.
”We have acknowledged all requests received so far except six of them received recently which will be done before the end of the week,” Prof. Yakubu said while delivering his remarks at the second regular consultative meeting with media executives in Abuja.
The Commission said it is releasing the full list of the 110 associations seeking registration as political parties today, indicating their proposed names, acronyms, addresses and the names of their protem Chairmen and Secretaries.
The list, the Prof. Yakubu said, will be uploaded to INEC website and social media platforms shortly while hard copies are included in your folders for this meeting.
Meanwhile, the second regular consultative meeting with media executives is holding in the middle of two electoral activities.
First is the conduct of primaries for the Area Council election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) which, by INEC’s Timetable and Schedule of Activities, ends on Monday 30th June 2025.
The election will be held in 68 constituencies made up of Chairmen and their Deputies for the six Area Councils, namely Abaji, the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kuje and Kwali as well as 62 Wards drawn on the basis of 10 Wards for each Area Council, except AMAC which has 12 Wards on account of its population.
The full delimitation details for the FCT are available on INEC website.
The second electoral activity is the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship election.
The campaign in public by political parties commenced exactly two weeks ago on 11th June 2025 and will continue until midnight of Thursday 6th November 2025 i.e. 24 hours prior to Election Day.
According to the INEC Chief, the present Commission registered the largest number of political parties in Nigeria strictly following the provision of the electoral legal framework,
”For the 2019 General Election, there were 91 political parties and 73 presidential candidates,” he noted.
The Commission was criticised in some quarters for registering too many political parties.
After the election, the Commission also deregistered over 70 political parties as provided by law.
”We wish to reassure Nigerians that under the current situation, we will continue to be guided by law and act with fairness to all associations seeking registration as political parties,” Prof. said.
”We will treat all requests fairly irrespective of the status of their promoters, be they ordinary or prominent citizens. Nigerians will be fully briefed of the actions taken by the Commission every step of the way.”
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