2023: APC Youth Leader demands 35% reduction in nomination fee for aspiring youths

Ahead next general elections, newly elected National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Dayo Israel, has said he would make the needed intervention in the new National Working Committee to seek reduction in Nomination fee for aspiring youths, seeking elective offices.

Israel gave the assurance on Monday while speaking with newsmen at the party national secretariat. He said outrageous Nomination fee could be an encumbrance to youths willing to participate in the electoral process.

Flanked by zonal youth leaders at the media briefing, he maintained that the consideration given to women who enjoy 50% reduction in fees for nomination forms be extended to youths.

He said: “You will agree with me that upon our shoulders, we are coming together to ensure that we have one voice. I represent the face of over 10,000 youth leaders. We are a strong force, the collective voice that we have, we work together and I will go into such rooms like the NWC meeting to make a case on behalf of that strong body of the youths across the nation to ensure that our young people get preference. If you are giving women 50%, you should be able to give young people under the age of 35 at least if not 40, the consensus to be able to pay a discounted fee.”

On the incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), the APC Youth leader promised that he would make efforts to meet key stakeholders in the education sector and engage them to find lasting solutions to the impasse.

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