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political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or pol ...

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

. The

Federal Republic of Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of G ...

has a multi-party system. The largest by

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

seats are the

All Progressives Congress The All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Founded on 6 February 2013 from a merger of Nigeria's three largest opposition parties, the ...

(APC) and the

People's Democratic Party People's Democratic Party or ''variant thereof'', could refer to: * People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan *People's Democratic Party (Belize) *People's Democratic Party (Bhutan) *People's Democratic Party (Chile) * People's Democratic Party (Dom ...

(PDP). There are also a number of smaller parties, the largest of which are

All Progressives Grand Alliance The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is a political party in Nigeria. Electoral history At the legislative elections held on 12 April 2003, the party won 1.4% of popular votes and 2 of 360 seats in the House of Representatives of Nigeri ...

(APGA) and

Young Progressives Party The Young Progressives Party (YPP) is a social-democratic political party in Nigeria. The party was created to challenge the two major contemporary parties in Nigeria, the People's Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress. In its mani ...

(YPP) as well as others including the

African Democratic Congress The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is a political party in Nigeria. As of 2022, Ralph Nwosu is the National Chairman.There are 2 ADC members currently in the Nigerian National Assembly. They are all members of the House of Representatives and r ...

(ADC), People's Redemption Party (PRP),

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...

(SDP), and eleven other parties registered with the

Independent National Electoral Commission The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was established in 1998 and is the electoral body which oversees elections in Nigeria. History Regulation and administration of elections The administration of democratic elections in Nige ...

Current parties

Parties represented in the National Assembly

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Other parties represented in state assemblies

Extraparliamentary parties

Unregistered parties

These active (or recently active) parties are not currently registered with the

. After the

2019 elections The following elections were scheduled to occur in 2019. The International Foundation for Electoral Systems has a calendar of upcoming elections around the world, and the National Democratic Institute also maintains a calendar of elections in coun ...

, INEC deregistered 74 political parties for failing to "satisfy the requirements" of continued registration based on their poor performances during the elections. However, many of these parties are still organizationally active as the deregistration of 23 of the parties is being challenged in court as of 2022 while the complete deregistration

Supreme Court A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

case was only settled in May 2021. There are also prospective parties, like the revival of the

Movement of the People The Movement of the People, commonly abbreviated as MOP or M.O.P, is a Nigerian left-wing pan-African political movement. The organisation was originally formed by Fela Anikulapo Kuti in 1979 as a political party but quickly became inactive due ...

, where there is yet to be a decision on their registration. *

Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) is a political party in Nigeria. It was founded on December 16, 2016 by Tope Fasua and some politically concerned Nigerians. The party was officially registered and announced by the Independent National Elect ...

(ANRP) * Advanced Allied Party (AAP) *

Advanced Congress of Democrats The Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) was an opposition political party in Nigeria, created and first registered in March 2006. In September 2006, in merged into the newly (2005) formed Action Congress. The ACD was primarily composed of forme ...

(ACD) * Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP) * Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA) * African People Alliance (APA) *

All Blended Party The All Blending Party is a political party in Nigeria, The party was announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was established in 1998 and is the electoral body which ove ...

(ABP) *

All Grand Alliance Party All or ALL may refer to: Language * All, an indefinite pronoun in English * All, one of the English determiners * Allar language (ISO 639-3 code) * Allative case (abbreviated ALL) Music * All (band), an American punk rock band * ''All'' (All ...

(AGAP) * All Grassroots Alliance (AGA) * Alliance National Party (ANP) * Alliance Of Social Democrats (ASD) * Alliance for Democracy (AD) * Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) * Alliance for a United Nigeria (AUN) * Allied Congress Party Of Nigeria (ACPN) * Alternative Party of Nigeria (APN) * Better Nigeria Progressive Party (BNPP) * Change Advocacy Party (CAP) * Change Nigeria Party (CNP) * Coalition For Change (C4C) * Communist Party of Nigeria (CPN) * Congress of Patriots (COP) * Democratic Alternative (DA) * Democratic People's Party (DPP) * Democratic People’s Congress (DPC) * Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) * Freedom And Justice Party (FJP) * Fresh Democratic Party (FDP) * Grassroots Development Party Of Nigeria (GDPN) *

Green Party of Nigeria Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combin ...

(GPN) * Hope Democratic Party (HDP) * Independent Democrats (ID) * Justice Must Prevail Party (JMPP) * KOWA Party (KP) * Legacy Party of Nigeria (LPN) * Liberation Movement (LM) * Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA) * Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN) * Mega Party Of Nigeria (MPN) * Modern Democratic Party (MDP) * Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRDD) *

(MOP) * National Action Council (NAC) *

National Conscience Party The National Conscience Party (NCP) is a nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation ...

(NCP) * National Democratic Liberty Party (NDLP) * National Interest Party (NIP) *

National Unity Party The National Unity Party, National United Party, Party of National Unity or National Unity Front may refer to: * National United Party of Afghanistan (founded 2003) * National Unity Party (Albania) * National United Party (Armenia), defunct * Natio ...

(NUP) * New Generations Party of Nigeria (NGP) * New Progressive Movement (NPM) * Nigeria Community Movement Party (NCMP) * Nigeria Democratic Congress Party (NDCP) * Nigeria Elements Progressive Party (NEPP) * Nigeria For Democracy (NFD) * Nigeria People’s Congress (NPC) * People for Democratic Change (PDC) * People's Progressive Party (PPP) * People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) * People’s Party of Nigeria (PPN) * People’s Trust (PT) * Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) * Providence People's Congress (PPC) * Re-Build Nigeria Party (RBNP) * Reform and Advancement Party (RAP) * Restoration Party of Nigeria (RP) *

Save Nigeria Congress Save, SAVE, or Saved may refer to: Places *Save (Garonne), a river in southern France *Save River (Africa), a river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique *Sava, a river in Eastern Europe also known as Save *Savè, Benin, a commune and city * Save, Govuro ...

(SNC) * Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP) *

Socialist Party of Nigeria The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) is a socialist political party in Nigeria. The SPN was launched as an initiative by the Democratic Socialist Movement and held its inaugural conference in Lagos on 16 November 2013. The SPN filed for regist ...

(SPN) * Sustainable National Party (SNP) * United Democratic Party (UDP) *

United Nigeria People's Party The United Nigeria People's Party was a political party in Nigeria formed and led by Chief Donald Etiebet during General Sani Abacha's military era. At the 12 April 2003 legislative elections the party won 2.8% of popular vote, 2 out of 360 seat ...

(UNPP) *

United Patriots The United Patriots (OP; bg, Обединени Патриоти; ОП, translit=Obedineni Patrioti; OP) was a nationalist electoral alliance in Bulgaria formed by three political parties: IMRO – Bulgarian National Movement (IMRO), Attack (unt ...

(UP) * United People's Congress (UPC) * United Progressive Party (UPP) * Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) * We The People Nigeria (WTPN) * Yes Electorates Solidarity (YES) *

Young Democratic Party Young may refer to: * Offspring, the product of reproduction of a new organism produced by one or more parents * Youth, the time of life when one is young, often meaning the time between childhood and adulthood Music * The Young, an American roc ...

(YDP) * Youth Party (YP)

Historical parties

First Republic

* Action Group (AG) * Borno Youth Movement (BYM) * Convention People's Party of Nigeria and the Cameroons * Democratic Party of Nigeria and Cameroon (DPNC) *

Dynamic Party Dynamic Party was a Nigerian political party headed by the mathematician and erudite scholar Chike Obi. It was inaugurated in Ibadan on April 7, 1951. The party embraced Kemalism, and was cautious about the early movement towards self-government. ...

(DP) * Igala Union (IU) *

Igbira Tribal Union Igbira Tribal Union was a political organization formed by educated servicemen from Igbira Native Administration of Northern Nigeria, headed by George Ohikere George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer ...

(ITU) *

Kano People's Party The Kano Peoples Party was a Nigerian political party in the first republic. Formed in 1963, it soon became the second largest opposition party in Northern Nigeria overtaking the United Middle Belt Congress. In 1966, the Party was proscribed al ...

(KPP) * Lagos State United Front (LSUF) * Mabolaje Grand Alliance (MGA) *

Midwest Democratic Front The Midwest Democratic Front was a small political party from Nigeria's Midwest region; encompassing present day Edo and Delta states. The party was one of the various small parties that forged alliances with the dominant parties in Nigeria's fir ...

(MDF) * National Independence Party (NIP) *

National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) later changed to the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens, was a Nigerian nationalist political party from 1944 to 1966, during the period leading up to independence and immediately ...

/ National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) *

Niger Delta Congress The Niger Delta Congress (NDC) is a socio-political organization of the ethnic nationalities of the Niger Delta region. The NDC was established on the 26th of December 2019 in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, to serve the purpose of uniting the minorit ...

(NDC) * Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP) *

Northern Elements Progressive Union The Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) was the first political party in Northern Nigeria. Founded in Kano on 8 August 1950, it was the offshoot of a pre-existing political association called the Northern Elements Progressive Association. ...

(NEPU) * Northern People's Congress (NPC) *

Northern Progressive Front The Northern People's Front was a Nigerian political Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resource ...

(NPF) *

Republican Party Republican Party is a name used by many political parties around the world, though the term most commonly refers to the United States' Republican Party. Republican Party may also refer to: Africa *Republican Party (Liberia) * Republican Part ...

(RP) *

United Middle Belt Congress United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) was a political party in Nigeria during the nation's First Republic. The Party was a fusion of two major Middle Belt organizations, viz. the Middle Zone League and the Middle Belt Peoples' Party. The party was for ...

(UMBC) *

United National Independence Party The United National Independence Party (UNIP) is a political party in Zambia. It governed the country from 1964 to 1991 under the socialist presidency of Kenneth Kaunda, and was the sole legal party in the country between 1973 and 1990. On 4 A ...

(UNIP) *

Zamfara Commoners Party Zamfara (Hausa: Jihar Zamfara Fula: Leydi Zamfara 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤣𞤭 𞤶𞤢𞤥𞤬𞤢𞤪𞤢) is a States of Nigeria, state in northwestern Nigeria. The capital of Zamfara state is Gusau and its current List of Governors of Zamfara State, ...

(ZCP)

Second Republic

Greater Nigerian People's Party The Great Nigeria People's Party was one of the six major political parties that fielded candidates for elections in the Nigerian Second Republic. The party was formed by a splinter group from the Nigerian People's Party, the group was led by Wazi ...

(GNPP) * Movement of the People Party (MPP) * National Party of Nigeria (NPN) *

Nigeria Advance Party The Nigeria Advance Party was a progressive political party during the Second Nigerian Republic, registered for the 1983 elections. Headed by lawyer Tunji Braithwaite, known for his opposition and as a lawyer, the party was the only new political ...

(NAP) * Nigerian People's Party (NPP) * People's Redemption Party (PRP) * Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN)

Third Republic

National Republican Convention The National Republican Convention was a Nigerian political party established by the government of General Ibrahim Babangida and ultimately disbanded by the military regime of General Sani Abacha in 1993. Alignment The party was organized to cat ...

(NRC) *

(SDP)

Abacha era

* Committee for National Consensus (CNC) * Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN) *

Grassroots Democratic Movement The Grassroots Democratic Movement (GDM) was a Nigerian political party that was one of the five state-sanctioned political parties allowed by the government of General Sani Abacha to participate in state assembly elections held in December 1997, a ...

(GDM) * Justice Party (JP) *

National Centre Party of Nigeria National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

(NCPN) * National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) *

United Nigeria Congress Party The United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP) was a Nigerian political party. It was one of the five state-sanctioned political parties allowed by the government of General Sani Abacha to participate in state assembly elections held in December 1997, in ...

(UNCP)

Fourth Republic

Aboki Wawa Arewa Movement Aboki is a Hausa word for Friend. Aboki may also refer to: * Aboki (song), song by Nigerian rapper Ice Prince. * Jordan Aboki, French basketball player. * Ahmed Aboki Abdullahi Ahmed Aboki Abdullahi is a retired Brigadier General of the Ni ...

(AWAM) *

Action Congress of Nigeria The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), formerly known as Action Congress (AC), was a Nigerian political party formed via the merger of a faction of Alliance for Democracy, the Justice Party, the Advance Congress of Democrats, and several othe ...

(ACN) * African Renaissance Party (ARP) * All Democratic Peoples Movement (ADPM) *

All Nigeria Peoples Party The All Nigeria Peoples Party (abbr. ANPP) was a political party in Nigeria. Under the leadership of Late Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke who was its vice presidential candidate to General Muhammadu Buhari in the 2007 presidential elections. The party ...

(ANPP) * All People's Party (APP) * Alliance for Democracy (AD) * Citizens Popular Party (CPP) *

Congress for Progressive Change The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) was a political party founded in Nigeria in 2009 in preparation for the April 2011 elections. It was the 63rd political party to be founded in the country. In February 2013, the party merged with the A ...

(CPC) * Conscience People's Congress (CPC) * Grassroot Patriotic Party (GPP) * National Democratic Party (NDP) * New Democrats (ND) * Nigeria Poor People Party (NPPP) * People's Salvation Party (PSP)

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