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 dow
“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.