The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced that Senatorial aspirants jostling for tickets in the forthcoming legislative by-elections are to pay N7 million for the party’s expression of interest and nomination forms.
It also said that aspirants seeking to contest for a place in the Houses of Assembly are to purchase the forms for N850,000 each, while female aspirants and physically challenged aspirants are to pay 50 per cent of the prescribed fees for each position.
APC Director of Organisation, Professor Medaner Ussiju Al-Mustapha, released these details at the weekend in Abuja as contained in the party’s timetable and schedule of activities ahead of the conduct of the 2020 concurrent legislative by-elections in eight states.
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last week, fixed the legislative by-elections in eight states for Saturday, October 31.
The party sent out notice of election to the affected states last Friday and slated the sale of nomination and expression of interest forms from August 15 to August 23, while completed forms and accompanying documents are to be submitted on August 24.
According to the APC, screening of aspirants will be conducted from August 25 to August 26, 2020; publication of claims and objections will hold on August 28; screening appeal on September 1, while the primary in the 12 constituencies will hold on September 5, 2020.
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In the meantime, Senatorial by-election will hold in Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Bayelsa West, Cross River North, Imo North, Lagos East and Plateau South.
In Lagos, however, aspirants will be jostling to fill the void left by Bayo Osinowo who represented Lagos-East Senatorial District constituency in the upper chamber.
Osinowo died of Covid-19 complications in May at the age of 64 years.
He was a four-time member of the Lagos House of Assembly and was elected a senator in 2019 replacing Bariyu Gbenga Ashafa.
