Nigeria: Political Parties Call for Return of Govt's Funding

5 December 2012

Abuja — Some parties' chieftains have stressed the need for the Federal Government to resume funding of the registered political parties in the country.

The chieftains, who made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the existing political parties were not sufficiently solvent to be denied grants from the government.

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