The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) has shortlisted 14 associations for the following stage of evaluation of their bid to be registered as political events in Nigeria.
Nationwide Commissioner and Chairman, Info and Voter Training Committee, Sam Olumekun, introduced the choice on Thursday following a gathering of the Fee in Abuja. He stated the functions have been drawn from 171 associations that had submitted requests to INEC.
Olumekun defined that the functions have been examined in opposition to the provisions of Part 222 of the 1999 Structure (as amended), Part 79 of the Electoral Act 2022, and the Fee’s Rules and Tips for Political Events 2022.
“Out of the full variety of functions acquired, 14 associations have met the necessities to proceed to the following stage, whereas 157 haven’t,” he stated. “The Fee shall formally talk the choice arising from immediately’s assembly to all of the associations within the subsequent 24 hours.
In the meantime, the listing of the 14 pre-qualified associations has been printed on our web site and different official platforms for public data.”
The cleared associations are the African Transformation Occasion (ATP), All Democratic Alliance (ADA), Advance Nigeria Congress (ANC), Abundance Social Occasion (ASP), African Alliance Occasion (AAP), Residents Democratic Alliance (CDA), Democratic Management Alliance (DLA), Grassroots Initiative Occasion (GRIP), Inexperienced Future Occasion (GFP), Liberation Individuals’s Occasion (LPP), Nationwide Democratic Occasion (NDP), Nationwide Reform Occasion (NRP), Patriotic Peoples Alliance (PPA), and Peoples Freedom Occasion (PFP).
INEC additionally invited the interim chairmen and secretaries of the 14 associations to a briefing on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at its headquarters in Abuja. Based on the Fee, the assembly will define the following steps, together with importing required data to its portal and present process bodily verification of claims made by the teams.
“The ultimate dedication of the registrability of the associations as political events shall be made after the bodily verification of all their claims to find out compliance with the authorized framework,” Olumekun said.
He careworn that the registration of political events stays a steady course of beneath Nigerian regulation and that INEC will proceed to contemplate functions that meet the standards.
In June 2025, INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed that the Fee had acquired 110 letters of intent from associations in search of registration. He famous that every one requests have been being processed consistent with the regulation and INEC pointers.
“As of Monday, June 23, 2025, the Fee has acquired letters of intent from 110 associations that want to register as political events,” Yakubu stated on the time. “We’re diligently processing the requests consistent with the process outlined within the regulation in addition to our laws and pointers. We have now acknowledged all requests acquired, apart from six which have been submitted lately. These shall be acknowledged earlier than the top of the week.”
Yakubu additionally suggested teams to review the Fee’s Rules and Tips for Political Events 2022, that are publicly out there on INEC’s web site.
