The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential screening committee has disqualified 10 of the 23 aspirants seeking the party’s ticket to contest the 2023 general poll.
The New Diplomat gathered the disqualification has triggered trepidation among all the 23 presidential aspirants of the ruling party as the names affected have not been released to the public as of the time of this reporting.
This was stated on Friday afternoon by a former national chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, who is chairman of the screening committee, while submitting the report of the screening exercise to the APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu in Abuja.
The party’s presidential aspirants screening committee, headed by a former National Chairman of the party, Odigie-Oyegun, had screened 23 contenders for the APC’s presidential ticket at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja between Monday and Tuesday.
Those screened by the APC committee as of then were; former Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Felix Nicholas; a United States-based pastor, former Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun; Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, a serving senator, Ajayi Borroffice, former Senate President Ken Nnamani.
Others are; Uju Ken-Ohaneye, former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; former governor of Zamfara State, Sani Yerima; former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu and Tunde Bakare, a cleric.
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed its presidential primaries for June 6 and 8.
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