The All Progressives Grand Alliance has approved the guidelines released by its National Working Committee for the conduct of primaries to select candidates for the 2015 general elections.
The party’s National Executive Committee also unanimously appointed Governor Wllie Obiano of Anambra State as its leader and chairman of its Board of Trustees following the defection of his predecessor, Mr. Peter Obi to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh in a terse statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja stated that the appointments were pursuant to the mandate given on January 18 2014 by its NEC to the NWC to fill existing vacancies.
The NEC also approved the appointment of Alexander Amujiogu, a legal practitioner, as APGA’s acting Deputy National Secretary.
The statement reads: “At the end of the NEC meeting of APGA held on November 3 2014 at the party’s National Secretariat, Abuja, the NEC unanimously resolved as follows: to approve and adopt the APGA electoral guidelines for primary elections for 2015.
“Having regard to the resignation of Chief Peter Obi as the leader and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of APGA and his subsequent defection to the PDP and the vacancy created thereof in the office of the leader and Chairman of the BoT, the NEC unanimously appointed His Excellency, Chief (Dr.) Willie Obiano, the Governor of Anambra State, as the leader and Chairman of the BoT of the party.
“Pursuant to the mandate given on January 18 2014 by the NEC to the NWC to fill existing vacancies in the NWC, the NEC also appointed Alexander Amujiogu, a lawyer, as the acting Deputy National Secretary of APGA.”
THE PUNCH recalls that APGA had in releasing the guidelines for the conduct of its primaries to select candidates for next year’s elections, pegged the amount for the collection of governorship slots at N12 million.
The party however said it reserves the right and discretion to issue expression of interest and nomination forms at any time before the scheduled primaries.
The National Secretary of APGA, Dr. Sani Shinkafi, in the schedule of activities released after a meeting of its NWC in Abuja however said that women aspirants shall pay only 50 per cent of the fees for the nomination forms.
According to him, the purchase and return of forms for the expression of interest and nomination forms begins on October 27 and ends on November 4.
The party pegged its governorship form at N12 million with the expression of interest form going for N2 million, while the nomination form is N10 million.
For the State Houses of Assembly, the expression of interest form goes for N200,000 while the nomination form is N1 million.
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