List Of All Registered Political Parties in Nigeria
Nigeria as a country embraced Democracy as a system of government. As we all know that in democracy people’s opinions are respected and obeyed. This is done through elections, this gives room for the citizenry to have a take in who will govern them.
It operates a multi-party system. This means that
as many registered and approved parties as possible are allowed to present candidates to vie for public offices.
The general election is being conducted by the unpire known as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), it conducts elections into the following political offices:
- FCT Minicipal Councils
- House of Assembly
- House of Representatives
- The Senate
- Office of the Governors and
- Office of the President.
The political party system in Nigeria has gone through a metamorphosis since 1960 when we had the first republic parties like the Action Group (AG) , Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN), Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and several others.
Presently, there are about thirty political parties in Nigeria, they are:
- All Progressives Congress (APC)
- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
- All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)
- Labour Party (LP)
- Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD)
- Alliance for Democracy (AD)
- African Democratic Congress (ADC)
- All People’s Party(APP)
- African Renaissance Party(ARP)
- Conscience People’s Congress (CPC)
- Communist Party Of Nigeria (CPN)
- Democratic Alternative(DA)
- Democratic People’s Party (DPP)
- Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM)
- Fresh Democratic Party ( FDP)
- Masses Movement of Nigeria(MMN)
- National Conscience Party (NCP)
- New Democrats (ND)
- National Democratic Party (NDP)
- Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA)
- People’s Progressive Party(PPP)
- People’s Redemption Party (PRP)
- People’s Salvation Party (PSP)
- Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP)
- Socialist Party of Nigeria(SPN)
- United Nigerian People’s Party (UNPP)
- United Progressive Party (UPP)
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ruled the country from 1999-2015, Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo was sworn-in on May 29th, 1999 under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He succeeded in using two terms (1999-2007), Late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua succeeded Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo in 2007 under the same Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform as he was sworn-in on May 29th, 2007.
Late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua died on May 5th, 2010 due to illness. His then Vice, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was Sworn-in.
In 2011, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan contested and won still under the same PDP platform,he took the oat of allegiance again on 29th of May, 2011.
But in In 2015, Goodluck Jonathan contested and lost to President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressives Congress (APC) in a very keenly contested election.
That was the first time an opposition party will defeat the incumbent powerful at the central since independence.
All Progressives Congress (APC) is the current ruling party in Nigeria and has been the ruling party since May 29th of 2015.
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