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Atiku’s ADA, three ‘Obidients’ group, Fela’s POP, in INEC’s list of new parties
The much advertised All Democratic Alliance (ADA), reportedly being promoted by Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, Rotimi Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State and Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Rivers State, is finally on the table of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for registration, after days of misgivings over what was considered foot-dragging by the electoral body.
Other platforms confirmed to have been received by the commission for registration included, Movement of the People (MOP), a party originally promoted by Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the late Nigeria Afrobeat maestro, now resurrected by Seun Kuti, his son and Obidient Peoples Party (OPP), led by Barry Avotu Johnson, believed to be sympathetic to Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023.
INEC, confirmed the receipt of letters of intent from the three political platforms alongside 107 others in a 110-list of associations seeking registration as political parties.
Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Commission, who disclosed this on Wednesday, noted that the requests are being processed in line with the relevant laws and the Commission’s Regulations and Guidelines, adding that the list was what the commission received as at Monday, June 23.
His words: “As of Monday, 23rd June 2025, the Commission has received letters of intent from 110 associations that wish to register as political parties. We are diligently processing the requests in line with the procedure outlined in the law as well as our regulations and guidelines. We have acknowledged all requests received. So far, we have acknowledged all applications received, except for six, which were submitted recently. These will be acknowledged before the end of the week.”
Apparently responding to criticisms that it was not ready for registration of parties to close the door against those that might challenge President Bola Tinubu in 2027, the INEC boss, urged Nigerians, especially those interested in registering political parties, to consult the Commission’s Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties 2022, available on the Commission’s website.
Releasing the full list of the 110 associations, detailing their proposed names, acronyms, addresses, as well as the names of their Chairmen and Secretaries, he added: “The list will be uploaded to our website and social media platforms shortly. Hard copies have also been included in your folders for this meeting.”
SEE FULL LIST AND ACRONYM
- Key of Freedom Party (KFP)
- Absolute Congress (ABC)
- All Grassroots Party (AGP)
- Congress Action Party (CAP)
- United Social Democrats (USDP)
- National Action Congress Party (NACP)
- Great Alliance Party (GAP)
- New Nigeria Congress (NNC)
- United Peoples Victory Party (UPVP)
- Allied Conservative Congress (ACC)
- Peoples Freedom Party (PFP)
- All Nigerians’ Party (AND)
- Abundant Social Party (ASP)
- Citizens Party of Nigeria (CPN)
- National Freedom Party (NFP)
- Patriots Party (PP)
- Movement of the People (MOP)
- Peoples National Congress (PNC)
- African Union Congress (AUC)
- Alliance of Patriots (AOP)
- Socialist Equality Party (SEP)
- About Nigeria Party (ABNP)
- African Reformation Party (ARP)
- Accelerated African Development Association (AADA)
- Obidient Peoples Party (OPP)
- Zonal Rescue Movement (ZRM)
- Zuma Reform (ZR)
- Party for Socialist Transformation (PST)
- Liberation People’s Party (LPP)
- Progressive Obedients Party (POP)
- Great Nigeria Party (GNP)
- National Youth Alliance (NYA)
- National Reform Party (NRP)
- Patriotic Congress Party (PCP)
- Community Alliance Party (CAP)
- Grassroot Alliance Party (GAP)
- Advance Nigeria Congress (ANC)
- All Nigerians Alliance (ANA)
- Team New Nigeria (TNN)
- All Labour’s Party (ALP)
- New Green Generation Coalition Party (NGOCP)
- New Green Congress (NGC)
- New Green Coalition Party (NGCP)
- About All (Nigerian)
- Nigerian Liberty Movement (NLM)
- National Democratic Party (NDP)
- Citizen United Congress (CUC)
- All Gender Party (AGP)
- Polling Unit Ambassadors of Nigeria (PUAN)
- Village Intelligence Party (VIP)
- Great Transformation Party (GTP)
- Alliance Social Party (Not Provided)
- Nigeria Democratic Alliance (NIDA)
- New National Democratic Party (NNDP)
- Obedients Peoples Party
- Nourish Democratic People’s Congress (NDPC)
- All Youth Reclaim Party (AYRP)
- LA RIBA Multipurpose Cooperative Society
- Alliance Youth Party of Nigeria (AYPN)
- The True Democrats (TTD)
- Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC)
- National Democratic Movement
- Economic Liberation Party (ELP)
- Grassroot Ambassador’s Party (GAP)
- All For All Congress (AFAC)
- People Democratic Alliance (PDA)
- United National Youths Party of Nigeria
- Peoples Liberation Party (PLP)
- Democratic Union for Progress (DUP)
- Citizen Democratic Alliance (CDA)
- African Action Group (AAG)
- Patriots Alliance Network (PAN)
- Democratic Leadership Party (DLP)
- Pink Political Party (PPP)
- Young Motivation & Awareness for Development Forum
- Access Party (AP)
- Youth Progressive Empowerment Initiative (YPEI)
- Grassroot Ambassadors’ Party (GRAP)
- Republican Party of Nigeria
- Sceptre Influence Party (SIP)
- Young Democratic Congress (YDC)
- Patriotic Nigerians Party (PNP)
- Far-Right Party
- Democratic People’s Party (DPP)
- United Citizens Congress (UCC)
- Reset Nigeria (RN)
- New Nigeria Democratic Party ()
- Save Nigeria People Party (SNPP)
- Above All (AA)
- Alliance for Youth and Women Party (AYWP)
- Rebuild Nigeria Group (RNG)
- Citizen Progressive Party (CPP)
- Good Guardian Party (CG PARTY)
- Abiding Greatness Party (AGP)
- Patriotic Peoples’ Party (PPP)
- Development & Freedom Party (DFP)
- Peace, Unity & Prosperity Culture (PUP Culture)
- The Populist Party (Party P)
- New Nigeria Leadership Party (NNLP)
- All Allies Alliance
- National Action Network (NAN)
- Coalition for Nigerian Democrats (CND)
- Republican Party of Nigeria (RPN)
- Abundance Africa Alliance (AAA)
- Freewill Humanitarian Party (FHP)
- Peoples Emancipation Party (PEP)
- Peoples Liberation Congress Party (PLPC)
- Peoples Democratic Congress (PDC)
- All Democratic Alliance (ADA)
- Advanced Democratic Alliance (ADA)
Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Governor of Oyo State, on Thursday, finally threw his hats into the ring by declaring his intention to run for president in 2027, with a message – history beckons.
The governor, whose ambition has been a matter of speculations for months now and who had teamed up with forces angling to force President Bola Tinubu, out of power, told a teeming crowd in Ibadan on Thursday that time had come to reset Nigeria.
At a mega-rally to announce the alliance between the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and the Allied Peoples’ Movement, (APM), Makinde, expressed worry over the dwindling fortunes of Nigerians, vowing to engage Nigerians to end the drift.
Hear him: “Without a multi-party system, there is no democracy. Where is our multi-party? Where do we go from here? We have been pushed to the wall.
“They calculated and self-opposition cannot unite but I am here to say that the opposition is the everyday Nigerian. This is the time for all us to ensure Nigeria works for us. This is the time to confront it fears. It is time to engage as citizens and not spectators.
“For the opposition political parties, this is the time to unite and work in unity and give our nation the much reset it needs. The time to reset Nigeria is now. Ibadan is the city of warriors. The first grand alliance is formed. The PDP and APM is formed. This handshake will allow us to field candidates from presidency to state Assembly. And so, I declare my candidacy for office of the president of Nigeria.”
Eyo Ekpe, a professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), on Wednesday, gave a detailed account on how operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) manhandled him on Monday.
He told reporters that he was at sea on why he should fall victim to the assault against his person and eventually arrested given that was not right person directly involved in the information the agency sought.
Some operatives of the EFCC who invaded the hospital, had whisked Ekpe away after firing teargas to scare away the workers, patients and visitors to the hospital, following what appeared like a fracas the ensued over what it claimed was a routine duty in the facility.
Ekpe, Deputy Chairman of the hospital’s Medical Advisory Committee (MAC), described how an operative had first entered his office to make inquiries on why the hospital was yet to give a response to an EFCC inquiry over a medical report linked to a suspect facing trial.
He detailed how he briefed the operative that the said response was being prepared and even went ahead to show him the draft of a letter in that regard, which needed to go through the gamut of official endorsement before being released.
Hear him: “The head of that internal medicine department looked at the report and also discovered that the name of the doctor that signed the report is not a member of staff of that department.
“I had prepared prepared a response to the EFCC on Monday, May 11, 2026, based on the findings. When the EFCC operative visited my office the next morning to collect the document, I told him that the response was ready in draft. I even showed him the draft, but told him that the document still needed approval from the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital before it could be officially signed and released.
“He pretended to have accepted that. He left, but later later returned with another armed operative and informed me that I was under arrest. I asked him why. I was not the one that issued the medical report. My name is not on the medical report. The report was not issued from my unit.
“But he said I would get the answer when I get to their office. I then asked him to at least wait for my staff member who I sent on an errand before joining them. But they refused.
“They started pushing me. They dragged me out of the office. Then I began to cry while they were dragging me. They had warned me not to speak. They had taken my phone. My cry as they were dragging me, attracted the workers to the scene, who enquired what was going on, but because they ordered me not to speak, I couldn’t say anything. They had their guns.
The members of staff of the hospital initially blocked them from taking me away. They then made a call. After that I saw many masked and armed men came violently, broke the protector, threatening the people that were around and people ran away.
“They picked some staff that were still by me. they dragged me and other staff, five of us into their van downstairs. By that time they discovered that the gate of the hospital were locked. So, they drove towards the gate and packed and the commotion continued. We were inside the van.
“I was so emotionally and psychologically traumatised that I couldn’t even look out of the vehicle to see what was happening outside. But I know that teargas and live bullets were shot. That’s all I can say for now.”
Joyce Abdulmalik, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, heard on Wednesday, how Zenith Bank raised alarm over the huge transaction in one of its branches by Abubakar Malami, former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF-MoJ).
The bank said it immediately filed a Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) in respect to the transactions, during its appearance in the ongoing trial of Malami, his wife, and son over allegation of massive looting of funds belonging to the Federal Government during his tenure.
Mashelia Bata, a compliance officer with the bank, who appeared as witness in the case, where Malami, et al, are facing a 16-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering to the tune of N8.7 billion, to which they pleaded not guilty, gave the testimony while being questioned on the bank’s roles in the matter.
Details of the testimony conveyed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), stated how the compliance officer who was cross-examined by Adebayo Adedeji, lawyer to the defendants admitted that the deposits in the account statements complied with the guidelines of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Arguments had stretched when Adedeji, opposed Jibrin Okutepa (SAN), lawyer to the EFCC, who had asked the witness to explain the meaning of a suspicious transaction report, stressing that there was no ambiguity in the term.
However, Okutepa, in response, maintained that section 215(3) of the Evidence Act did not preclude him from re-examining the witness while urging the court to allow the question for proper explanation.
After Abdulmalik, agreed and overruled Adedeji, the witness told the court that banks were required to alert the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) about fund deposits coming in a repetitive pattern, adding: “Any deposition of funds seen in a pattern or repetitive, you must escalate it to the NFIU.”
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