The All Progressives Congress (APC) screening panel has
disqualified 10 out of 23 presidential hopefuls from participating in its
special convention to pick a standard bearer.
John Oyegun, chairman of the screening panel, said this on
Friday while presenting a report to Abdullahi Adamu, APC national chairman.
“First, we have 23 aspirants that we interacted with and my
first comment is that we are indeed a lucky party. The point I want to make is
the quality of the people that want to govern this country,” Oyegun said.
“We are a governing party and so the ability to lead, the
background, experience… it is on the basis that we made a shortlist. I won’t
want to read the names, I’d leave that to you, but we brought the number down
to 13.
“We could have cut it
a little shorter but we wanted the younger elements to surface.”
Details of the presidential hopefuls who did not make the
cut are not yet known.
Felix Morka, APC spokesman, had said 28 presidential forms
were purchased, but three persons — Chris Ngige, minister of labour; Timipre
Sylva, minister of state for petroleum: and Godwin Emefiele, governor of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) — did not submit their forms.
Also, presidential forms purchased for former President
Goodluck Jonathan and Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development
Bank (AfDB), were not submitted.
Cleared aspirants are expected to contest the presidential
primary at a scheduled special convention in Abuja between June 6 and 8.
More to follow . . .
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