INEC registers 5 new political parties

    

  The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has registered five new political parties, on the grounds that the sponsors met the registration criteria and constitutional requirements.
     National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Adedeji Soyebi, disclosed this after a weekly meeting of national commissioners in Kaduna, saying that the newly-registered parties are: Young Progressive Party, YPP, Advanced People’s Democratic Alliance, APDA, New Generation Party of Nigeria, NGP, All Democratic Peoples Movement, ADPM,  and Action Democratic Party, ADP.
    In a related development, INEC said it has spent over N463 million on the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration, CVR.
   Speaking during a retreat on Mid-Quarter Review of Continuous Voter Registration , CVR, held in Kaduna, yesterday, INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed  that the Commission considered three options before settling for the less expensive option of executing the CVR through its Local Government Area  offices.