{"id":4290,"date":"2025-05-21T06:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:52:19","slug":"fct-councils-polls-apc-pegs-chairmanship-slot-forms-at-n20million-councillors-to-pay-n2-5m-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/fct-councils-polls-apc-pegs-chairmanship-slot-forms-at-n20million-councillors-to-pay-n2-5m-each\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Councils Polls: APC pegs\u00a0 Chairmanship slot forms at N20million, councillors to pay N2.5m each\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Reporter<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ahead of the February 2026 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Councils election draw close,\u00a0 the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken the lead in preparing the minds of aspirants to the cost of their aspirations for the positions of their choices and the scheduled timetable in keeping with guidelines provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In line with the timetable of activities for the proposed FCT election released on Tuesday by the APC National Organising Secretary, Alhaji Sulaiman Muhammed Argungu, aspirants to the post of chairman in the six area councils are expected to pay a total of N20 million comprising N5million for Expression of Interest forms and N15million for Nomination forms.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Similarly, aspirants, who wish to contest for the position of councillor are to pay a total of N2million comprising N1.5million for Nomination forms and N500, 000 for Expression of Interest forms.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The party granted partial waivers for female aspirants and people with disabilities (PWDs), and they are to pay only for the Expression of Interest forms while the Nomination forms will be granted to them free of charge.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Another positive initiative introduced by the party which was acclaimed as a good development was that youths agedvbetween 25 to 40 years were offered the forms at fifty percent discount to encourage active participation of young people in the electoral process.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The party, however, warned that in keeping with the constitution of the APC, only fully registered and financially active members are eligible to purchase forms and participate in the primary elections at the area councils when the process commences.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporter Ahead of the February 2026 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Councils election draw close,\u00a0 the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken the lead in preparing the minds of aspirants to the cost of their aspirations for the positions of their choices and the scheduled timetable in keeping with guidelines provided by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[1110,2739,494,2748,77,2750,2751,868,2749],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","tag-aspirants","tag-aspirations","tag-cost","tag-councils","tag-election","tag-guidelines","tag-nominations","tag-preparation","tag-timetable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}