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  • Tinubu purchases APC nomination, set for May 30 indirect primary

    Tinubu purchases APC nomination, set for May 30 indirect primary

    The National leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) and Presidential aspirant Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has purchased the APC’s N100 million presidential nomination and expression of interest forms.

    Tinubu, who is Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj sent representatives from the Bola Tinubu Support group and some key politicians; Ikeja Federal Constituency, James Faleke; a member representing Agege Federal Constituency in the green chamber, Babatunde Adejare; and a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.

    Recall that APC pegged the nomination and expression of interest form at the whopping sum of 100 million naira for presidential aspirants.

    The fee of N100 million for presidential aspirants is inclusive of N30 million for the expression of interest form and N70 million for the nomination form.

    The party also fixed N50 million for governorship aspirants, N20 million and N10 million for senatorial and House of Representatives aspirants respectively, and N2 million for state House of Assembly aspirants.

     

     

  • N100m APC nomination forms, measure to assess aspirant’s support base – Sen. Adighije

    N100m APC nomination forms, measure to assess aspirant’s support base – Sen. Adighije

    The sale of expression of interest and nomination forms fixed for N100 million by the All Progressives Congress (APC) will help to measure and assess a presidential aspirant’s support base.

    Sen. Chris Adighije, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of, Governing Council, the Federal University of Lokoja in Kogi, made this known on Tuesday at a news conference in Abuja.

    Adighije, who threw his weight behind the APC National Working Committee (NWC) on the cost of the forms, said that no aspirant was expected to raise such an amount of money personally, but from those supporting them.

    He said that any aspirant, who has no support base, have no business being in the race.

    “The Presidency is a large constituency and anybody contesting for it should have support that can raise the money for him. If you are running for the state House of Assembly, the same thing applies.

    “So, with the support base and spread, you should be able to, at least, raise a reasonable amount of the money.

    “I don’t think the expectation is for an individual to put his hands in his pocket and find N100 million. I don’t think that is the purpose.

    “The purpose is to measure and assess an aspirant support’s base,” he said.

    Newsmen reports that since APC announced the cost of its Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms, some people have criticised the cost, saxing that it would breed corruption.

    They also argued that such nomination fee would discourage potential aspirants to lead.

    However, the APC National Women Leader, Dr Beta Edu, had condemned those criticising the cost of the nomination forms.

    According to her, the reason for the exorbitant nomination fee is to cut down the number of aspirants that would buy the forms.

    This, she added, would have put more pressure on the party’s leadership while processing the aspirants.