APC Screens Tinubu, 12 Others, Disqualifies 10 Aspirants for Presidential Primary



The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has disqualified ten of the twenty-three screened presidential aspirants.

This was revealed by the party’s committee chaired by the former national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun on Friday, June 3, while submitting the report of his seven-member panel to the national chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, at the party’s national secretariat today in Abuja.

The aspirants that were disqualified were not immediately available. However further revelations have shown that some bigwigs who bought the party’s N100,000,000 nomination have been disqualified.

According to one of the sources, all 23 aspirants screened were cleared and qualified, but the committee recommended a “safe list” of 13 names.
 
Those recommended in the list include; APC National leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; former minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi; Senate President Ahmad Lawan; Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi.

Others include former minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; former minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu; former Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun; Ebonyi State governor David Umahi, and his Jigawa State counterpart, Abubakar Badaru.

Two other aspirants, former minister of the Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio and Mr Tein Jack-Rich, were also believed to have made the list after the committee submitted its report yesterday afternoon.

The ten aspirants excluded from the shortlist include; Pastor Tunde Bakare; former Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha; Cross Rivers State governor, Ben Ayade; former Zamfara State governor, Sani Yerima, and former Senate president, Ken Nnamani.

Others are former Minister of Information and Culture, Ikeobasi Mokelu; former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Demeji Bankole; US-based Pastor, Felix Nicholas, and the only APC female aspirant, Uju Ken-Ohanenye.

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