YPP presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, slams APC for placing huge financial burden on election candidates

The presidential aspirant on the platform of the Young Progressives Congress (YPP), Adamu Garba, in a media interaction on Thursday, slammed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on what he considered as placing huge financial burden on political participation, chiding the ruling party for the cost of election forms for 2023 election aspirants.

Speaking on Channels Television on Thursday, Adamu Garba, formerly a member of the APC, berated that ruling party for financializing political participation, excluding party members who lack huge funds from participating in the electoral process.

The APC had sold the party’s Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms at N100 million for presidential aspirants and N50 million for governorship aspirants, beside others.

Adamu Garba protested that since APC has taken members to that direction, some have to define a new path. He had argued that the cost of forms for election aspirants was huge and unnecessary.

“A path that would remove Nigeria from poverty and transit it to one of the greatest countries in the world away from the crass nepotism and cronyism that is evidently happening in the APC,” Adamu was cited to have said. He had argued that APC only succeeded in eliminating young people from politics by selling presidential forms at N100 million.

“In a situation where you commercialise political participation in the country, you are causing so much damage to the future of the country.

“If you are a young man in Nigeria and you try to participate in any political activity in the APC, it is very clear that you are just trying to waste your time,” he had declared.

Adamu noted that he defected from the APC to YPP because the “future of young people is not in the APC.”