has approved the appointment of a seven-member committee to screen interested aspirants for the party’s 2021 Anambra State governorship election.Other members of the committee are Eugene Odo, Ben Angwe, Kemi Nelson, Ahmed Aliyu and Adeolu Akande.
“The committee will be inaugurated on Thursday 10th June, 2021 at the APC National Secretariat, Abuja by 2:00pm,” the interim National Secretary, John Akpanudoedehe said in a statement on Wednesday. At the close of sales of nomination forms on June 8, sources within the party hierarchy told PREMIUM TIMES that the party had raked in N315 million from the sale of forms to 14 aspirants.that the APC released its schedule of activities for the governorship election in April, pegging its Expression of Interest and Nomination forms at N2.5 million and N20 million respectively, bringing the total to N22.5 million.
It slashed the total price for the forms by 50 per cent for women and physically challenged aspirants interested in the governorship ticket. However, it was gathered that as of Wednesday when the sale of the forms closed, there was no female aspirant.Some of the male governorship aspirants to be screened by the seven-member committee for the June 26 primary include Andy Uba, Chidozie Nwankwo, George Moghalu, Paul Orajiaka, and Geoffrey Onyejegbu.
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