The All Progressive Congress, National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, on Monday, explained the rijigging of the cost of expression of interest and nomination forms of the party.
Morka stated that female aspirants and persons with disability are to purchase expression of interest forms for all the positions that they may be interested in while the nomination forms will be free.
According to him, expression of interest funds will be paid based on the schedule that are announced for female aspirants or for persons living with disability.
He stressed that the nomination forms which obviously costs more will be delivered to them for free.
Morka who explained that the youths will enjoy special consideration added that only persons between the ages of 25 to 40.
He said they will purchase their expression of interest forms but with a discount of 50 per cent.
According to him, all of the payments are to be made to banks that will be designated by the party and published in a very short while from now.
He said, “Now the last item is the schedule of fees payable for these offices. The first is the house of Assembly. The expression of interest form has been set for N500,000 while the nomination form has been set for N1.5m. That brings it to a total of N2m for the state House of Assembly.
“The House of Representatives has a fee of N1m for the expression of interest form N9m for the nomination for bringing it for the House of Representatives to total of N10m.
“For the Senate, we have the expression of interests from set at N3m Naira while the nomination form has been set at N17m bringing it to a total of 20m for the Senate.
“For governorship, we have the expression of interest form set at N10 million Naira with the nomination from set at N40m naira bringing it to a total of N50m Naira for the governorship and our presidential form has been set for expression of interest of N30m Naira and the nomination form set at N70m bringing it to a total of N100m.” He said.
