Illegality of outrageous nomination fees, By Femi Falana

Members of the All Progressives Congress willing to participate in the presidential primary election have been directed to pay N100 million for the nomination and expression of interest forms. Similarly, the nomination and expression of interest forms for those seeking the party’s ticket to contest the governorship election in their respective states cost N50 million.

However, in a careless attempt to play on the collective intelligence of Nigerians, the Peoples Democratic Party accused the APC of “inflicting maximum pains on its members” and that the fees cast the ruling party “in the image of rogues and hypocrites”. However, the PDP had earlier pegged its fees for both the expression of interest and nomination forms at N40 million for president, and N21 million for governorship aspirants. Those aspiring for Senate are to pay N3.5 million, N2.

, Justice Avril Inglis of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta declared that the deposit requirement infringed Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and could not be justified under Section 1 of the same Charter. Before theSince the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 is the basic law of the land, any Act or law or policy which is inconsistent with this will be struck out.

It is submitted that if the electoral bodies that are vested with the power to conduct elections are prohibited from collecting meagre nomination fees from candidates, what is the legal basis for collecting billions of naira from aspirants by political parties? However, while political parties cannot charge outrageous nomination fees, they may be permitted to direct aspirants to pay nominal fees for administrative expenses.

will be made online by aspirants no political party should charge more than N10,000 for administrative purpose. After all, the registration fee charged by the Joint Matriculation Examination Board is less than N5,000 per candidate. Therefore, the APC and PDP should withdraw the outrageous fees and charge administrative fees of not more than N10,000 per aspirant.

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