Aspirants on the platform of the
All Progressives Congress, APC, have cried out over what they tagged as
‘outrageous cost price’ of nomination forms into various elective positions for
the 2019 general elections.
The aspirants said the cost price
as proposed by members of the APC National Working Committee was a deliberate
attempt to rubbish the President Muhammdu Buhari government.
It was gathered that the party
had during the week proposed N1m for State Assembly, N3. 3m for House of
Representatives, N8.5 for Senate, N22.5m for governorship and N55.5m for
presidential nomination forms restrictively.
Speaking on behalf of the
aggrieved aspirants, Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi, said the price tag is corruption
and must be rejected.
According to him, “As
progressives and anti-corruption crusaders of the APC-led administration, we
expected the leadership of the party (National Working Committee) to reduce the
price of nomination form from it’s existing cost to accommodate the recently signed
into law bill of Not Too Young To Run, instead, the NWC has proposed over 300
percent increment on it , making the APC unfriendly to many credible aspirants.
“Nigerians are beginning to ask,
what is the difference between the PDP and the APC? If the PDP sells nomination
form for N600,000, the APC is supposed to sell the same for N200,000, where the
cost of APC nomination form is higher than all other political parties in the
country, is an attempt to ridicule the anti-corruption war of President Buhari.”
The aspirants also frowned at
what they termed inconsequential on the new electoral guidelines of the party,
which allows direct primary for the presidential leaving the choice of
electoral method for the states to choose.
He added, “We must do things in a
manner that Nigerians should not begin to laugh at us, how can we have a direct
primary for the Presidential and another method for other elections, this is
inconsequential?
“We call on the leadership of the
Party to introduce direct primaries at all levels, this will take away the
criticism that may trail aftermath of any delegate elections. It is a form of
participatory democracy which will not only increase the confidence of our
party but its candidates facing the general elections.”
“We believe in the leadership of
our great Party, especially our National Leaders, President Muhammadu Buhari,
Sen. Ahmed Bola Tinubu and Comrade Adams Oshiomole. The time to save our party
is now.
“We sincerely appeal that we must
not sell forms above that of the PDP, if possible, lower, because any attempt
to sell the nomination form at the present proposed cost, may send more people
out of our great Party a ahead of the general elections.”
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