The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Senator Abdulahi Adamu has said that his party has no regrets with the cost of nomination forms.
NPO Reports that the party had fixed its nomination forms for N100m. APC is also charging N50 million for governorship aspiration, N20 million for Senate, N10 million for House of Representatives, N2 million for House of Assembly.
The party had drawn the ire of Nigerians who accused it of promoting corruption.
But reacting on Friday after presenting the governorship candidate of the party in Ekiti State to the President, Adamu said, “On the issue of cost. Yeah, I’ve been listening with rapt attention to the hues and cries from our lovers and our adversaries. We have no regrets whatsoever. We did some homework; we know what it takes to go through primaries, go through presidential campaigns and go through elections for the President. We know what it takes.
“Over and above that, yes, we are the ruling party. Yes, we need to set examples in what we do, but I ask you, I don’t know which part of the country you come from if God forbid, your traditional ruler dies today, contestants to that office will give more than N100m. It’s no news.
“When I contested for the Senate, all I paid was just a token; N5m, N10m, including the expression. When my colleague wanted to be the chairman of the party in the days of Adams Oshimhole, it cost him N500,000. Today, for me, just as an example, to contest the national chairman of our party, I had to pay N20m.
“The enormity of work that has to be done will be done with the money. We don’t want to continue begging. So, I want to say that we’re able to mobilise sufficient funds to support our efforts to win the election. Some protests may be well-founded, I have no quarrel with that, but the propensity of this, that people just assume it’s the ruling party.”