{"id":2265,"date":"2026-07-26T00:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:12:03","slug":"delsu-src-regulates-nomination-form-fees-ahead-of-student-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"DELSU SRC Regulates Nomination Form Fees Ahead Of Student Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daniel Chigozie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Students&#8217; Representative Council (SRC) of Delta State University (DELSU) has approved maximum fees for nomination forms to be charged by electoral committees ahead of the 2025\/2026 student elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The directive was contained in a notice dated July 17, 2026, and signed by the Speaker of the 32nd Parliamentary Assembly, Rt. Hon. Marvellous Ovie Ekama, and the Clerk, Hon. Comr. Esther Roland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the notice, the Council said it received several complaints over the high cost of nomination forms being sold by various electoral committees across departments, faculties, cultural associations, and social clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following deliberations, the SRC fixed the maximum nomination fees at \u20a68,000 for departmental elections, \u20a612,000 for faculty elections, \u20a610,000 for cultural association elections, and \u20a65,000 for social club elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Council stated that the approved fees take immediate effect and must be strictly observed by all electoral committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It further warned that any electoral committee found charging above the approved fees would be dissolved in line with the Council&#8217;s constitutional oversight responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SRC also directed committees that had already sold nomination forms above the approved rates to refund the excess amount to affected aspirants within one week from the date of the notice, warning that failure to comply would attract appropriate sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Council called on all electoral committees to comply fully with the directive to ensure a fair and transparent electoral process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Chigozie The Students&#8217; Representative Council (SRC) of Delta State University (DELSU) has approved maximum fees for nomination forms to be charged by electoral committees ahead of the 2025\/2026 student elections. The directive was contained in a notice dated July 17, 2026, and signed by the Speaker of the 32nd Parliamentary Assembly, Rt. Hon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[31,25,26,23,604,605],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trendingnews","tag-abraka","tag-delsu","tag-education","tag-elections","tag-src","tag-students-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaconversation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}