Where Will Ngige, Amaechi Get N100m To Buy Nomination Form With Annual Salary Of N2m? Ozekhome Knocks Buhari

The heated smoke generated by the exorbitant price of APC nomination form is yet to settle down three days after.

Since the decision was taken on Wednesday after the NEC meeting, Nigerians have taken to different social and news platforms to vent their anger over what the described as a pocket-teering fee.

The ruling party pegged the price of presidential nomination form at 100 million naira for all presidential aspirants under the party, a development that has sparked a nationwide outrage.

Reacting to the development, the Human Right Lawyer, Mike Ozekhome challenged president Muhammadu Buhari to explain to Nigerians how the likes of Rotimi Amaechi, Chris Ngige and other ministers serving in his cabinet and with presidential ambition, will raise such an amount through their annual salaries of N2,223,705 naira.

In a statement he signed, Ozekhome said Buhari has shown Nigerians an “example of how not to fight corruption.

“Buhari and the APC must tell us where they hope that Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, whose present annual salary is N12.126 million, will obtain N100m from when he would require 99 months to earn the N100m price for the nomination form.

“It will take Buhari himself whose salary is N14.05m 84 months (7 years) to get N100m.

“They must explain to Nigerians where aspirants like Chris Ngige and Rotimi Amaechi who are ministers with an annual salary of N2,026,400 will get N100m for a presidential form when it will take them nearly 50 years to earn N100m.

“Let Buhari and the APC explain to Nigerians how Kayode Fayemi, Yahaya Bello, David Umahi, and Okorocha, whose salary per annum is N2,223,705, will cough out N100 million when it will take each of them 45 years to earn N100 million. Where will non-wealthy members of the APC, like Gbenga Hashim Olawepo get such money from?

“This APC party and president Buhari must tell Nigerians where Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and former Senate President Dr Ken Nnamani would fetch N100m from, when their salary as Senators was and is N750,000 per month. It would take Kalu and Nnamani 135 years to earn N100m.”