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The National Working Committee(NWC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday said the governorship nomination form fee of the party has been increased from N5m to N20m.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja.
He also said the party has ordered a fresh congress to elect new executives for its chapter in Kogi State. He stated that the decision to hold the congress was because the tenure of the present executives will end on July 22.
Ologbondiyan, however, said that the congress will not hold at local government and ward levels in the state.
The PDP spokesman said the date and guidelines for the governorship primaries and the congress would be announced in due course.
He urged all potential aspirants to stay away from misconduct and utterances that are capable of negatively affecting the chances of the party in the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States.