{"id":98171,"date":"2022-08-15T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98171"},"modified":"2022-08-15T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:04:30","slug":"anger-in-apc-over-non-refund-of-nomination-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/anger-in-apc-over-non-refund-of-nomination-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger In APC Over Non-Refund Of Nomination Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Four months after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a refund of nomination fees to aspirants who stepped down during the All Progressives Congress (APC) March 26 consensus National Convention, the party is yet to comply.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nInvestigations also showed that the party is indebted to members engaged to conduct the congresses (ward to the National Convention) ahead of the 2023 general elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe party, in the last two months, has also failed in the payment of staff salary as at when due. June salary was paid mid- July and workers only received their July pay last Friday, as against payment on the 25th of every month.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nPresident Buhari, at March 24 meeting with eight national chairmanship aspirants, persuaded them to step down for a consensus candidate, with a promise to refund their nomination fees.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nEach aspirant for party offices paid between N20 and N2.5 million for the expression of interest and nomination forms, depending on the office contested for. Investigations showed that the party raked in over N700 million from about 170 persons.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIt was also learnt that the party generated over N3 billion from members who purchased the expression of interest and nomination forms to contest for tickets ahead if the 2023 general elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBut despite the huge receipts, affected party members are complaining about the non-compliance with the presidential directive.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nOther members who may soon launch an attack on the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC) are those engaged to conduct screening and party primaries that produced candidates for the 2023 election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAside from the non-payment of their allowances, it was gathered that the members are irked by the NWC decision to slash the yet-to-be-paid allowances by 40 per cent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAn affected member who stepped down for one of the national vice chairmanship candidates, who was also involved in the conduct of primaries in the Northwest, complained bitterly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe said: \u2018When the president gave the order on March 23, one will think the first assignment of beneficiaries of the consensus arrangement would be to effect an immediate refund of our nomination fees, having asked us to write our bank details for refund.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe party is buoyant. The Governor Buni-led Caretaker Committee left money, the NWC equally realised a huge sum, running to billions of Naira. What excuse will the NWC give for this delay? When the committee (NWC) has since paid their allowances.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cIndividually we applied for a refund and we have collectively sent a formal letter through the Forum of National Convention Aspirants but all have gone unattended to. The irony of it is that when we failed to honour a promise made to our members; when the party engaged members on sensitive assignments like the screening and conduct of primaries and the assignment was carried out, using our money, one would not expect the party to honour us with non-payment of our dues.<br \/>\nTo add salt to our injury, we learnt that the yet-to-be-paid allowances have been slashed by 40 per cent.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nNational Vice Chairman (Northwest) Salihu Lukman regretted the delay, but said the matter is being looked into.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four months after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a refund of nomination fees to aspirants who stepped down during the All Progressives Congress (APC) March 26 consensus National Convention, the party&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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