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The Progressive
People’s Alliance (PPA) has fixed its nomination fee for presidential
aspirants on the party’s platform in the 2011 general elections at
N500,000, and rolled out details of its primaries.

The party made this
known in a statement on Monday signed by its Director Mobilisation for
Youth Affairs, Ken Nze, who said the fee was an indication of interest
by aspirants to contest under PPA for an elective position. The fee for
the governorship elections goes for N200,000 while that of Senate
stands at N100,000.

The statement said
the amount payable for expression of interest for House of
Representatives was N75,000 while that for House of Assembly was
N25,000. The party also announced that it would commence its primaries
with the State Houses of Assembly elections on October 9, adding that
the date was in accordance with INEC’s timetable and schedule of
activities for the 2011 general elections. State House elections will
be followed by State House of Assembly Appeal Panels on October 10, the
statement read.

It added that the
primaries for governorship elections would hold on October 15, followed
by its appeal panels the next day in various states. While the National
Assembly primaries would begin on October 21 with the national appeal
panels on the following day, October 22.

The statement explained that presidential primaries for all states
and the FCT would hold on October 27, with the national appeals on
October 28. It added that the National Convention for the ratification
of presidential nomination would hold on October 29.