The Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Screening Committee, John Odiegie Oyegun on Friday submitted 13 qualified presidential aspirants to the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu having disqualified 10 aspirants.
Odigie-Oyegun spoke while submitting his committee’s report to the APC National Chairman, Abduallahi Adamu, in Abuja.
Apart from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, other APC presidential aspirants are Senate President Ahmad Lawan and former ministers Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu, Godswill Akpabio, and Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba.
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.
According to Oyegun, only 13 out of the 23 aspirants screened were cleared by the committee.
He hinted that youthful aspirants made the list of cleared aspirants without revealing names.
The PUNCH had reported that the committee held the screening exercise on Monday and Tuesday in Abuja.
According to an earlier released schedule by the party, the cleared aspirants are expected to contest the APC presidential primary at a special convention in Abuja between June 6 and June 8.
Tinubu, Osinbajo not youthful -Don
A Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media at Kennesaw State University, Farooq Kperogi, has said that both Tinubu and Osinbajo are not youthful.
He said this in a social media post after Oyegun’s committee submitted their screening report to the APC’s National Working Committee on Friday.
After the submission, Oyegun had hinted that youthful aspirants made the list of cleared aspirants.
The post was titled, ‘Tinubu and Osinbajo disqualified from APC Primaries?’.
He posted, “John Oyegun, who chaired APC’s screening committee, told newsmen a while ago that only 13 “youthful aspirants” were cleared to run for the party’s primaries.
Atiku’s message of unity in a disturbing ambience I’m not an emperor by any chance – Gov Abiodun “I can bet my bottom dollar that Bola Tinubu has been disqualified. 70 years isn’t, by any system of measurement, “youthful.”
“At 65, which is just five years younger than Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo isn’t “youthful,” either.
“The implosion of APC has just officially started!”
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