The All Progressives Congress in recent information said, it will begin its sale of presidential, governorship, national, and state assembly forms for aspirants on Saturday.
The ruling party, revealed this after its 11th National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Wednesday failed to disclose if it would be zoning its presidential ticket or not thereby leaving its forms open for all to buy.
However, its high nomination fees for aspirants generated angry reactions among Nigerians, with many of them saying they were symptomatic of the corrupt APC government.
The APC pegged its expression of interest and nomination forms for the presidential ticket at N100m.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, disclosed this shortly after the 11th NEC meeting of the APC.
According to Morka, the presidential nomination form would be sold for N70m while expression of interest forms would go for N30m.
He revealed that the House of Assembly expression of interest forms would go for N500,000 while the nomination form goes for N1.5m.
The nomination form for the House of Representatives would sell for N9m while the expression of interest form goes for N1m, making N10m in total.
Senatorial aspirants will purchase their expression of interest forms at N3m each and nomination forms at N17m each, making it N20m in total.
Governorship aspirants will have to part with N10m for the expression of interest forms and N40m for the nomination forms, making N50m in total.
The National Women Leader of the APC, Betta Edu, had said women would get free forms.
However, Morka said women were only entitled to free nomination forms but would pay for their expression of interest forms at every level.
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