Presidential Aspirants To Pay N45m As APC Releases Timetable For Primaries

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released the timetable for its primaries ahead of the general elections in 2019.

The party made the announcement in a statement by its National Organising Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Ibediro.

APC National Working Committee explained that the schedule was in line with the party’s guidelines for the conduct of primaries for the forthcoming polls as approved by its National Executive Committee (NEC).

The presidential primary is scheduled to hold on September 20 while governorship primaries will be conducted on September 25.

According to the timetable, members of the party aspiring to contest for the presidency are to pay N40m and N5m for the nomination and expression of interest forms respectively.

Similarly, governorship aspirants will pay N22.5m for the forms while the those vying for the Senate, House of Representatives, and House of Assembly seats are to purchase the forms for N7m, N3.85m, and N850,000 respectively.

The APC said all payments should be made in full directly into its designated bank accounts.

The sale of forms will be followed by the APC Nationwide Congresses to elect delegates for other primaries.

However, the presidential primary will be decided by the direct system as adopted at the party’s NEC meeting.

See the schedule released by the APC below;

 

SCHEDULE / TIMETABLE OF ACTIVITIES  

 

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in line with the provisions of our Party’s Guidelines for the conduct of Party Primaries for the 2019 General Elections as approved by the National Executive Committee (NEC) announces the commencement of our Nomination process as follows;

 

S/N	DATE	EVENT	ACTIVITY
1.	Wednesday 5th – Monday 10thSeptember, 2018	Sale of Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for Elective Offices	Sale of Forms to Aspirants for all Elective Offices
2.	Wednesday 12th September, 2018	Nationwide Congresses	To elect Delegates
3.	Thursday 13th – Friday 14thSeptember, 2018	Appeals	Appeals arising from Congresses.
4.	Saturday 15th  – Tuesday 18th September, 2018	Screening of Aspirants	Screening of all Aspirants that have Purchased Forms
5.	Wednesday 19th – Thursday 20th, September, 2018	Appeals	Appeals arising from the conduct of Screening of Aspirants
6.	Thursday 20th September, 2018	Presidential Primary	To elect Presidential Candidate; Direct Primary
S/N	DATE	EVENT	ACTIVITY
7.	Saturday 22nd September, 2018	Appeals	Appeals arising from the conduct of Presidential Primary
8.	Tuesday 25th, September, 2018	Governorship Primaries	To elect candidates for Governorship Elections
9.	Wednesday 26th – Thursday 27th September, 2018	Appeals	Appeals arising from Governorship Primaries
10.	Thursday 27thSeptember, 2018     Saturday 29thSeptember, 2018	Legislative Primaries     i. Senate           iii. House of Reps	To elect Candidates for Senatorial elections and for House of Representatives elections.
11.	Friday 28th – Sunday 30thSeptember, 2018	Appeals	Appeals arising from all Legislative Primaries
12.	Tuesday 2ndOctober, 2018	House of Assembly  and FCT Area Council Primaries	To elect State House of Assembly and Area Council Candidates
13.	Wednesday 3rd October, 2018	Appeals	Appeals arising from the conduct of House of Assembly Primaries
14.	Saturday 6th  October, 2018	National Convention (Presidential)	To ratify/ elect Presidential Candidate

 

PURCHASE OF FORMS

 

• All interested aspirants for Presidential, Governorship, Senate and House of Representatives elections are to purchase their forms from the National Secretariat, Blantyre Street Wuse II – Abuja.

 

• All interested aspirants for State of House of Assembly are to purchase their forms at their respective State Party Secretariat or the National Secretariat.

 

All payments should be made in full directly into the designated bank accounts of the All Progressives Congress as follows;

 

S/N	NAME OF BANK	ACCOUNT NUMBERS
1.	Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.	013-727-6795
2.	Zenith Bank Plc.	101-379-6249
3.	Zenith Bank Plc.	101-367-8040
4.	Zenith Bank Plc.	101-400-8105
5.	United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc.	101-804-5285
6.	Access Bank Plc.	069-298-8080
7.	Unity Bank Plc.	002-312-2431

 

1. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

• Expression of Interest N100,000.00
• Nomination N750,000.00

N850,000.00

 

1. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

• Expression of Interest N 350,000.00
• Nomination N3,500,000.00

N3,850,000.00

 

1. SENATE

• Expression of Interest N1,000,000.00
• Nomination N6,000,000.00

N7,000,000.00

 

1. GOVERNORSHIP

• Expression of Interest N 2,500,000.00
• Nomination N20,000,000.00

N22,500,000.00

 

1. PRESIDENCY

• Expression of Interest N 5,000,000.00
• Nomination N40,000,000.00

N45,000,000.00

 

• There shall be no separate charge for deputy

 

• Female Aspirants and Physically Challenged Aspirants 50% of the prescribed fees for each position.

 

MODALITIES FOR THE COLLECTION AND SUBMISSION OF FORMS

 

S/N	CATEGORY	COLLECTION	SUBMISSION
1.	Presidential	National Secretariat, Abuja	National Secretariat, Abuja
2.	Governorship	National Secretariat, Abuja	National Secretariat, Abuja
3.	Senate and House of Representatives	National Secretariat, Abuja	National Secretariat, Abuja
4.	House of Assembly	State Secretariat or National Secretariat, Abuja	National Secretariat, Abuja

CLOSING

All forms are to be collected and submitted on or before Wednesday 12^thSeptember, 2018

SIGNED

EMMA IBEDIRO ESQ.

NATIONAL ORGANIZING SECRETARY