Female members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) can now participate in the 2018 local government elections without paying for the nomination forms.
This hint was made by Chairman of Party in the state, Kingsley Esiso, at a press conference in Asaba, over the weekend.
he said nomination forms were free-of-charge for female politicians to encourage women in the state to actively participate in politics.
The PDP said it fixed nomination forms for male aspirants for the chairmanship seat at a nonrefundable fee of N1m and N200,000 for councillorship aspirants.
It also directed its local government chapters to reserve at least three slots of councillorship candidates for female aspirants across the state.
Esiso disclosed that the party’s candidates for the January 6, 2018 council poll would emerge this month.
He added that though the party’s internal arrangements would reduce the number of aspirants through consensus or mock primaries at the ward and local government levels, there would be no imposition of candidates.
