APC Presidential Screening Committee disqualifies 10 aspirants

Ten presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been disqualified.

Chairman of the Presidential Screening Committee (PSC) of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, disclosed this on Friday, after the committee presented its report to the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, at the party’s secretariat in Abuja.

Oyegun, a former national chairman of APC, who spoke with the media, said 13 out of the 23 aspirants for the presidential ticket of the APC were cleared to go before the party’s delegates, who will choose one out of the lot, at the APC Special National Convention holding in Abuja, between June 6 and 8, 2022.

Receiving the report, Adamu said it would be sent to the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) for consideration.

Apart from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, other presidential aspirants screened are Senate President Ahmad Lawan and former ministers Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu, Godswill Akpabio, and Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba.

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Serving governors aspiring are Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), Ben Ayade (Cross River) and Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa).

Others are former Senate President Ken Nnamani, former House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, and serving senators Ibikunle Amosun, Ajayi Boroffice, and Rochas Okorocha.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in 2011, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Uju Ken-Ohanenye, Nicholas Felix, Ahmad Rufai Sani, Tein Jack-Rich, Ikeobasi Mokelu are also aspiring.

Oyegun described those approved by his committee as “youthful aspirants”, but did not disclose their names.