New Naira Notes - '13 Political Parties' Threaten to Pull Out of Elections If Deadline Extended PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
'Thirteen' opposition political parties in Nigeria have said they will withdraw from the forthcoming general elections if theOnly the leader of one of the parties addressed the press and he did not list the remaining 12 parties that he said were part of their coalition.
The presidential and National Assembly election holds on 25 February while the governorship and state assembly elections will be conducted two weeks later on 11 March. The 18 registered political parties in the country are participating in the elections. The coalition threatened to withdraw its members' participation if the deadline for the currency swap was extended from 10 February to which it was shifted from the initial 31 January deadline.
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