Join us now, ADP tells de-registered parties

The Action Democratic Party has called on members and leaders of the de-registered parties to join ADP, describing the party as a home for all.
ADP’s National Publicity Secretary, Adelaja Adeoye, made the call in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday while reacting to the de-registration of 74 other political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Thursday told newsmen that the commission de-registered 74 political parties out of the existing 92 registered, leaving the country with 18 registered parties.
Yakubu said the parties were deregistered for not satisfying the requirements of the Fourth Alteration to the 1999 Constitution.
Adeoye said: “At this time, all those in the defunct and delisted parties must not feel like they have no place to go to because ADP is the party they should consider and they will be well treated when they join.
“ADP has remained the only credible alternative political party to the two existing dominant parties in Nigeria.”
The party’s spokesman commended its members nationwide for participating in the verification exercise across the 774 local government in the country.
He urged party’s leaders and members to redouble their efforts in attracting more members and prominent Nigerians to the party’s fold.