Probe Aspirants who Buy APC’s 100m, 50m Nomination Forms, PDP tells Anti-Graft Agencies
POLITICS DIGEST- The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has faulted the N100 million and N50 million nomination forms by the All Progressives Congress, APC, for aspirants contesting the 2023 presidential and gubernatorial elections.
Its National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, on Thursday in Abuja, demanded that persons who spend such amount of money to obtain the forms be investigated for fraud, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and other anti-graft agencies.
Ayu, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Communication and Strategy, Simon Imobo-Tswam, said the APC has disenfranchised thousands of her youths.
In the statement titled: ‘Overpriced APC nomination forms: Dr. Iyorchia Ayu’s reaction,’ the PDP National Chairman, added that the ruling party also dashed the hopes of millions of Nigerian youths who applauded President Muhammadu Buhari, when he signed the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill into law in 2018.
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He said, “The APC has disenfranchised thousands of her youths, and dashed the hopes of millions of Nigerian youths who applauded President Buhari when he signed the Not Too Young To Run Bill into law in 2018.
“In fact, all those buying the N100m and N50m nomination forms should be investigated for fraud.”
Ayu recalled that Buhari, in 2014, told Nigerians that he had to borrow N27m to buy his nomination form but has now sanctioned the sale of the same forms at N100m.
He added, “How then can impoverished APC aspirants buy nominations at such prohibitively high costs? And yet, only recently he preached ‘Equal Opportunity’ to them.
“By this latest action, the APC has disenfranchised thousands of her youths, and dashed the hopes of millions of Nigerian youths who applauded President Buhari when he signed the Not Too Young To Run Bill into law in 2018. It is most insensitive, and mind-boggling.
“In fact, all those buying the N100m and N50m nomination forms should be investigated for fraud.”
