{"id":4196,"date":"2019-08-12T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T05:45:48","slug":"list-of-political-parties-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/list-of-political-parties-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Political Parties in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria operates a multi-party system. This means that as many registered and approved parties as possible are allowed to present candidates to vie for public office.<\/p>\n<p>The political party system in Nigeria has gone through a metamorphosis since 1960 when we had the first republic parties like the Action Group, Democratic Party of Nigeria, Nigerian National Democratic Party and several others.<\/p>\n<p>Today,there are about thirty political parties in Nigeria including-:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP)<\/li>\n<li>Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN)<\/li>\n<li>All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/li>\n<li>All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)<\/li>\n<li>Labour Party (LP)<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD)<\/li>\n<li>Alliance for Democracy (AD)<\/li>\n<li>African Democratic Congress (ADC)<\/li>\n<li>All People\u2019s Party(APP)<\/li>\n<li>African Renaissance Party(ARP)<\/li>\n<li>Conscience People\u2019s Congress (CPC)<\/li>\n<li>Communist Party Of Nigeria (CPN)<\/li>\n<li>Democratic Alternative(DA)<\/li>\n<li>Democratic People\u2019s Party (DPP)<\/li>\n<li>Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM)<\/li>\n<li>Fresh Democratic Party ( FDP)<\/li>\n<li>Masses Movement of Nigeria(MMN)<\/li>\n<li>National Conscience Party (NCP)<\/li>\n<li>New Democrats (ND)<\/li>\n<li>National Democratic Party (NDP)<\/li>\n<li>Progressive People\u2019s Alliance (PPA)<\/li>\n<li>People\u2019s Progressive Party(PPP)<\/li>\n<li>People\u2019s Redemption Party (PRP)<\/li>\n<li>People\u2019s Salvation Party (PSP)<\/li>\n<li>Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP)<\/li>\n<li>Socialist Party of Nigeria(SPN)<\/li>\n<li>United Nigerian People\u2019s Party (UNPP)<\/li>\n<li>United Progressive Party (UPP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) is the current ruling party in Nigeria and has been the ruling party since Nigeria began its democratic rule in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria operates a multi-party system. This means that as many registered and approved parties as possible are allowed to present &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"List of Political Parties in Nigeria\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/list-of-political-parties-in-nigeria\/#more-4196\" aria-label=\"More on List of Political Parties in Nigeria\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6w1sx-15G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286962,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/286962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}