2023: Saraki’s panel asks PDP to waive nomination fees for youths

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The National Reconciliation and Strategy Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has recommended measures that would encourage youths active participation in politics.

The NRSC being led by a former Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has specifically advised the PDP leadership to allow any aspirant below 35 years, seeking to contest elective position on the platform of the party to be exempted from the payment of nomination fees.

The recommendation is contained in a one-page letter dated March 25, 2021, signed by Saraki and addressed to the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus.

The Committee also advised the National Working Committee to immediately recommend to the National Executive Committee that the party constitution be amended to that effect.

The letter states that, “only persons not less than 18 years old and not more than 35 years can contest for the position of Youth Leader at all levels of the party structure – wards, local government, state and national”.

The committee explained that the recommendation was a result of the meeting it held with the party’s National Youth Leader and other youth leaders across the 36 states of the nation on March 9th, 2021.

“In furtherance of its mandate to resolve disputes, reconcile aggrieved members and foster cohesion and unity within the party,” the letter added.

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The youths, the committee noted, presented some requests during the meeting and the demands were deliberated upon by the committee on March 22nd, 2021 following which the two-point recommendations contained in the letter were agreed upon.

The letter added, “The implication of the recommendation on waiver of the nomination fees for youths aspiring to various offices means that where the party guidelines for instance demand that a gubernatorial aspirant pay N20m for nomination form and N1m for Expression of Interest form, any aspirant below the age of 35 years, will get the nomination form at no cost while they only pay the N1m Expression of Interest fee.

“The measure is believed to be aimed at easing the burden of participation in the political process on the youths and encourage them to purposefully and positively utilise the new constitutional provisions on the age requirements for political office holders, otherwise called the Not Too Young to Run Bill.”

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