Ahead of February 3, 2024, national and state Houses of Assembly bye-elections, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the sale of nomination and expression of interest forms would begin on Wednesday, December 27, to aspirants contesting for the party’s ticket to fill vacant seats.

The party also fixed the primary elections for January 6.

The national organising secretary of the party, Sulaiman Argungu, who disclosed this in a timetable and schedule of activities notice for the bye-election in Abuja, said that the sale of the forms will end by Tuesday, January 2, 2024.

According to the notice, senatorial aspirants are to pick nominations and expression of interest forms for #17 million and #3 million respectively.

House of Representatives aspirants are to pay #1 million naira for the expression of interest form and #9 million for nomination form each, while State House of Assembly aspirants will pay #500,000 for the expression of interest and #1.5 million for nomination forms each.

In line with the policy of the party, female aspirants and People With Disabilities (PWDs) are only required to pay for the expression of interest for any of the elections as their nomination form is given for free.

Also, youth between the ages of 25 and 40 are to purchase the expression of interest and get the nomination forms at a 50 percent discount for each position.

In the same vein, delegates who are to elect the candidates in the primary elections are required to pay #5,000 for the delegate form.

The notice further directed that Members to elect candidates will be financial members of the party for not less than 3 months to the date of Delegate Congress with evidence of payment of membership dues at the rate of N200 only per month.” (The Nation)

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