The Naija Senate don yarn say dem go reduce the number of political parties wey dey participate for the election for the country from the 91 wey dem dey to 5 through legislation.
The upper chamber yarn this on Wednesday, October 9, for meeting with the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu.
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“Those parties that didn’t perform shouldn’t be on the ballot. The existing electoral act as amended has precluded the participation of parties that didn’t perform in the last elections.
“We need to amend the act to reduce the political parties to a maximum of five. This committee is really committed to reducing the number of political parties to save taxpayers money.”
Responding, INEC chairman said that the commission was in a dilemma to take decisive action to deregister political parties as a result of pending electoral litigations which could alter its judgement.
“The commission had systematically deregistered many parties under the electoral act. But the parties insisted that the electoral act is inferior to the constitution,”
