Nigerians have shown support for the call by Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reduce the number of registered political parties in the country from 91 to 10.
Falana, in an article on Sunday, titled, “INEC’s fresh power to de-register political parties,” had said if INEC followed the constitutional provisions on de-registration of political parties, not more than 10 of the 91 political parties would survive based on their performances in the just-concluded general elections.
Some Nigerians on social media who have shown their support for the call by the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said it his position is in order and urged INEC to heed to his advise.
A twitter user, Adetunji Benjamin (@evangadetunji) was of the opinion that:
“Nigeria doesn’t need more than three (3)political parties to save cost and time at coalition centres.”
Another social media user, Felicia Akinwale also said:
“We need INEC to please do that right now. All these mushroom parties are a huge source of distraction. We couldn’t debate our candidates last time out because they were just too many. Let’s trim down. Also every dick and harry were just pulling off the parties like they were in a circus. Even Amaechi got a willing party 24 hours to election to do his dirty job.”
A lecturer at the Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Dr Chris Omotosho who also bared his mind on the issue said via his Twitter page:
“I wholeheartedly support Femi Falana‘s position. Those parties are burdensome & they are merely occupying space. Let’s have 10 parties or less than. We need sanity in our political space.“
Engr. Mojay said
“Pls. @inecnigeria should speedily deregister political parties who have not met the minimum requirement. The 2019 ballot paper was a complete mess with some parties with a letter as acronym e.g A party. What is that?”
