The Lagos State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has raked in multimillion naira from the nomination forms purchased by Chairmanship and Councillorship aspirants in the forthcoming Local Government elections in the state.
According to a breakdown of the nomination forms obtained by the aspirants released by the State Secretary of the APC, Hon Lanre Ogunyemi, a total of 1046 aspirants obtained Councillorship nomination forms, while that of the Chairmanship aspirants was put at 333.
From the foregoing, N666million was raked in from chairmanship nomination forms at N2million each, while a total of N523million was generated from the forms purchased by Councillorship aspirants at N500,000 each.
In terms of breakdown per senatorial district, for the Chairmanship forms, Lagos West recorded 163; Lagos East, 87 and Lagos Central, 83.
For the Councillorship nomination forms, Lagos West, 538; Lagos East, 282; and Lagos Central, 226.
A party source, however, disclosed to Lagos Monitoring Team that the amount generated is not as high as N1.189billion as women and youth were asked to only pay half of the fees for the nomination forms.
“You see, we did not generate up to N1.189billion. As a party that is sensitive to the need to support women and the youths, we have asked these categories of aspirants to only pay half of the fees for the nomination forms both for Chairmanship and Councillorship forms.
“Also, the disabled were exempted from payment. The nomination forms for this category of persons are free, save for N5000 administrative charges,” the source said.
However, in the breakdown of nomination forms released by Ogunyemi, there was no information as to the number of women, youth and disabled that obtained the nomination forms.