{"id":66147,"date":"2025-05-20T19:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66147"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:36:04","slug":"apc-sets-steep-fees-for-fct-council-poll-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/20\/apc-sets-steep-fees-for-fct-council-poll-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Sets Steep Fees for FCT Council Poll Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress has announced a price tag of N20 million for chairmanship forms and N2.5 million for councillorship forms ahead of the 2026 Area Council elections in the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n<p>According to a timetable released Tuesday by APC National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Argungu, chairmanship hopefuls will pay N5 million for the expression of interest form and N15 million for the nomination form. Councillorship aspirants are to pay N500,000 and N2 million respectively.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a reprieve for some categories of aspirants. Female candidates and persons with disabilities will only pay for the expression of interest forms, with the nomination form given to them at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>Youths between the ages of 25 and 40 will receive a 50 percent discount on the nomination form.<\/p>\n<p>The party announced that sale of forms begins this Thursday and closes the following Wednesday. All completed forms are to be submitted by Thursday next week.<\/p>\n<p>The APC primary election is scheduled for June 25, 2025, while the general election will hold on February 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The pricing of the nomination forms has already sparked debates in political circles, with critics questioning the affordability and accessibility of the process for grassroots politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The All Progressives Congress has announced a price tag of N20 million for chairmanship forms and N2.5 million for councillorship forms ahead of the 2026 Area Council elections in the Federal Capital Territory. According to a timetable released Tuesday by APC National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Argungu, chairmanship hopefuls will pay N5 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66149,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66147\/revisions\/66149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}