Reports have it that the All Progressives Congress (APC) raked over N12.635bn from the sale of expression of interest and nomination forms in its recent primary elections.
This amount was arrived at when the cost of the forms and the number of aspirants that paid for them were collated.
President Muhammadu Buhari was the only contestant for the presidential primary and his supporters were said to have bought the form for him at the cost of N45m.
And for the governor primaries, each aspirant paid N22.5m with 171 aspirants getting the form. This amounted to N3,847,500,000
The party then made N2.702bn from the sales of forms to senatorial aspirants with each form going for N7m for the 386 contestants.
And for the House of Representatives, the APC sold the forms to about 1,587 persons for N3.8m. The amount thus totaled about N6,030,600,000.
State House of Assembly Expression of Interest Form-N100,000 while Nomination Form attracts N750,000 totaling N850,000.00. The number of those who got the party forms throughout Nigeria not known so could not be added.
Adding up these figures, the ruling party made over N12,635,100,000 from its primaries.