Hassan Ayariga\u2019s newly formed All People\u2019s Congress (APC) is expected to hold its first National Delegates Congress in Accra on June 13 ahead of elections in November.<\/p>\n
The congress is expected\u00a0to elect national executives and also acclaim the founder and leader of the party, Hassan Ayariga as its Presidential Candidate for this year\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”OVi4PBGjiDWZHUc7CdU6jeXqQyAzv2dT”]The APC founder told GBC\u2019s Radio Ghana on Wednesday, June 1, that about 3,000 delegates are expected to attend the event at the Accra International Conference Centre.<\/p>\n
GH<\/strong>\u00a2100,000 filing fee<\/strong><\/p>\n The APC recently announced that individuals with presidential ambition, wishing to run on the ticket of the party would have to cough up\u00a0a whooping GH\u00a2100,000 to contest the party\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n The cost of picking and filing of the Presidential nomination forms was GHS 5,000.00 and GHS95,000.00 respectively, totaling\u00a0 GH\u00a2100,000.00<\/p>\n APC\u2019s presidential filing fee became the highest in the history of Ghana\u2019s democratic governance following that of the opposition New Patriotic Party\u2019s figure of GH\u00a285,000 charged ahead of its 2014 primaries.<\/p>\n The ruling NDC pegged its own at GH\u00a2 50,000 for male flagbearer aspirants and a 50 per cent rebate for female aspirants.<\/p>\n It has now emerged that nobody has so far been able to pay\u00a0the colossal amount of GH\u00a2100,000.00 to challenge the APC founder at the national delegates congress, as he is the sole candidate to be acclaimed on June 13.<\/p>\n APC was formed out of the PNC<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Hassan Ayariga, who contested the Presidential elections on the ticket of the People\u2019s National Convention (PNC) in 2012, broke away to form the APC after he lost his bid to lead the PNC for the second time.<\/p>\n _<\/p>\n By: Awudu Mahama\/election.citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hassan Ayariga\u2019s newly formed All People\u2019s Congress (APC) is expected to hold its first National Delegates Congress in Accra on June 13 ahead of elections in November. The congress is expected\u00a0to elect national executives and also acclaim the founder and leader of the party, Hassan Ayariga as its Presidential Candidate for this year\u2019s general election. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":211187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2647,2648,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}