FULL LIST: The 18 parties that survived INEC’s hammer

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