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Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) made at least N6.9 billion from the sale of forms for the presidential, governorship, senatorial, and House of Representative aspirants.



The ruling party is yet to declare how much it made in total from sale of forms and is only legally mandated to do so to the electoral commission, INEC, when it submits its annual report. However, the earnings were calculated from public reports by the party’s National Working Committee. The review does not, however, contain the amount the national headquarters made from sale of forms to House of Assembly aspirants in the 36 states.

The review indicate that the APC made N3.59 billion from 160 governorship aspirants.

Also, the 282 candidates cleared to contest for the senatorial tickets paid a total of N1.95 billion for purchase of nomination and indication of interest forms respectively.

The party also made at least N1.39 billion from House of Representatives aspirants, while its sole presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, got his forms for N45 million.

The cost of obtaining the party’s expression of interest and nomination forms for the presidential ticket was N45 million, N22.5 million for governorship, N7 million for senatorial forms and N3.85 million for House of Representative forms.

The party had also announced a 50 per cent discount for female aspirants and physically-challenged contestants.

The details show that while the list of screened governorship aspirants had a woman; the cleared senatorial aspirants list had 21 women.

Despite criticisms of the high cost of nomination forms by aspirants and activists, the APC justified the fees saying it needed the money for its campaigns.

GOVERNORSHIP INCOME



The APC on September 27 released the list of all governorship aspirants who purchased its forms for the 2019 election.

The 160 names included both those cleared for the primaries and those disqualified including two serving ministers. At N22.5 million each, the total amount made from the sale of the 160 forms would be N3.6 billion.

With 21 governorship aspirants, Borno topped the list of states with the highest number of aspirants.

Borno State is closely followed by Taraba with 12 governorship candidates. However, the then minister of women affairs, Aisha Alhassan, who was among the aspirants screened out of the race enjoyed a 50 per cent discount based on the APC’s gender consideration. The party thus made N258.75 million from sale of governorship forms to Taraba aspirants.

Nasarawa State came third on the list with 11 governorship candidates, whose forms were worth N247.5 million.



Gombe, Zamfara, Ebonyi and Imo states had nine contestants each for the governorship position, worth N202.5 million from each of the respective states.

Oyo State produced eight prospective governorship aspirants, whose forms were worth N180 million collectively, while Abia State had seven contestants who paid a total N157.5 million.

Benue, Ogun and Enugu states had six governorship contestants each, with sale of forms worth N135 million in each state.

Yobe, Delta and Cross River states all had five governorship contestants, whose forms totalled N112.5 million for each state.

Bauchi, Sokoto, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states had four governorship aspirants each, whose forms summed up to N90 million for each state while Lagos, Katsina and Adamawa states had three contestants each with their forms totalling N67.5 million for each state.

Niger, Jigawa and Kebbi states produced two governorship aspirants who paid a total N45 million for each state while the incumbent governor of Plateau State, Solomon Lalong, emerged the only aspirant of the party in his state.

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Senatorial Aspirants


Unlike what it did for the governorship aspirants, the APC only released the names of senatorial aspirants cleared to contest its primaries. The list, and number, of aspirants who purchased forms but were.

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