APC Replies PDP, Our ‘Costly’ Nomination Forms Not Your Business

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has responded to criticisms trailing the prices of its nomination forms.

Recall that on Wednesday, the ruling party announced that a presidential aspirant would pay N45m for its expression of interest and nominations forms; a governorship aspirant would pay N22.5m and a senatorial aspirant, N7m.

The party has received heavy backlash from Nigerians including the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for pegging the forms at high prices.

Acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, reacting to the criticisms said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration planned on using the money gotten from the sale of the forms to run the elections.

He said, “Everybody knows that this administration under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari will never put its hands into the public treasury to take money for elections.

“Unlike the PDP which went to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and got public money from Diezani Allison- Madueke and the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, we will not do that.

“We have decided to use what we get from the sale of forms to run our elections. I wonder why the PDP has made this their business.”