2023: APC pegs presidential forms at N100m, governorship N50m

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 approved Schedule of Activities and Timetable for the 2023 general election.

The NEC has approved the commencement of sale of Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms from Saturday, April 23 to May 6, 2022 for the 2023 general election.

With the guidelines released on Wednesday, presidential aspirants on the platform of the ruling APC are to pay N100 million each for participation in the party’s primaries.

The NEC has pegged the Expression of Interest Form at N30,000,000 and Nomination Form at N70,000,000 for the Presidency.

APC members aspiring for governorship seat are to cough out N50 million; Expression of Interest Form for governorship is pegged at N10,000,000 while Nomination Form is N40,000,000.

Senatorial aspirants will pay N3 million for Expression of Interest and N17 million for Nomination Form totalling N20 million.

House of Representatives’ aspirants will part away with N10 million; Expression of Interest at N1 million and Nomination Form at N9 million.

Those aspiring for State House of Assembly will pay N500,000 for Expression of Interest Form and N1.5 million for Nomination Form totaling N2 million.

The NEC approved a 50% reduction in nomination fees for youths less than 40 years for various elective positions.

Earlier at the meeting, the APC NEC transferred its powers to the Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC) for the next 90 days.

According to Sen. Iyiola Omisore, the party’s National Secretary, Senate President Ahmad Lawan moved the motion for the transfer of power which was seconded by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna.

With this development, the APC NWC would henceforth take decisions that might require the intervention of the party’s NEC.

The APC National Chairman had in his opening remarks accused some present and past governors of the party of working at cross purposes to cause disunity among the party’s rank and file.

He maintained that state governors were leaders of the party in their respective states, adding that the APC Constitution does not make provision for dual leadership in the states.

Adamu, also a former governor of Nasarawa State, said the party’s former state governors were leaders in their own rights, adding that the incumbent governors should accord them all the necessary respect.

He added that the party’s NEC and its NWC had passed a vote of confidence in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government.

He advised party members to embrace unity, saying it was critical if the party must continue in its winning ways in 2023 and beyond.

The Star