AAP urges calm after lacking INEC registration

The African Alliance Party has urged its members nationwide to stay calm and resolute following the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee’s determination to register solely two new political events forward of the 2027 normal elections.

In an announcement issued in Abuja on Thursday, the celebration acknowledged INEC’s announcement however insisted that efforts have been ongoing to safe formal registration.

Reacting to the event, the Nationwide Chairman of the African Alliance Party, Olusegun Peters, appealed to celebration members throughout the nation to not lose focus regardless of the setback.

Peters assured supporters that the celebration’s management was actively partaking related processes and remained assured of eventual success.

“We hereby name on all AAP Members throughout Nigeria to realize power, relax and stay centered on celebration actions of their varied States.

“The Nationwide Chairman and the management of AAP are on high of the scenario, assured that our political affiliation will quickly be registered as a political celebration. We actually recognize members who labored laborious for the progress of the African Alliance Party”, the assertion partly learn.

AAP is one among a number of political associations looking for registration as a political celebration forward of the 2027 polls, a course of that has drawn heightened curiosity amid rising agitation for various political platforms outdoors Nigeria’s dominant events.

PidomNigeria On-line experiences that on Thursday, INEC authorized the registration of two new political events following what it described as a rigorous screening train.

The fee’s Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, introduced the choice in Abuja throughout INEC’s first common consultative assembly with political events in 2026.

Amupitan disclosed that out of 171 political associations that utilized for registration, solely the Democratic Management Alliance met all statutory necessities.

The INEC boss added that the Nigeria Democratic Congress was additionally registered in compliance with a Federal Excessive Court docket order directing the fee to take action.

In accordance with him, the DLA intends to advertise governance reforms, youth participation, transparency, grassroots mobilisation, and inclusive financial development, whereas the NDC positions itself as a centrist celebration centered on social justice, equitable useful resource distribution, and the strengthening of democratic establishments.

With the newest approvals, the variety of registered political events in Nigeria has risen to twenty.

Regardless of lacking out on the newest spherical of registrations, AAP mentioned it remained undeterred, urging its members to maintain mobilisation efforts on the grassroots as preparations for the 2027 normal elections collect momentum.