The John Odigie-Oyegun-led screening committee has disqualified 10 presidential aspirants seeking the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Nigerian presidency in 2023.
The Oyegun disclosed this while submitting the report of his committee to Abdullahi Adamu, APC the national chairman at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Friday.
He said only thirteen aspirants out of the 23 that appeared before the committee were cleared.
The aspirants that appeared include, Bola Tinubu, former Lagos state governor; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmad Lawan; Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti state governor; Godswill Akpabio, former minister of Niger Delta Affairs; Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state and Oladimeji Bankole, former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Others are; Tein Jack-Rich, President/ Founder of Belemaoil and Belema Aid Foundation; Ogbonnaya Onu, former minister of Science, Technology and Innovation; Ben Ayade, Cross River state governor; Ikeobasi Mokelu, former minister of Information; Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation, Emeka Nwajiuba, former Minister of State for Education and Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state.
Also screened are; Ahmed Yerima, former governor of Zamfara; Ibikunle Amosun, former Governor of Ogun state; Uju Kennedy, only female aspirant; Tunde Bakare, Nicholas Felix; Ken Nnamani, former President of the Senate president, Ajayi Borroffice, deputy senate leader and Mohammed Abubakar-Badaru governor of Jigawa State.
At the time of this report, the names of those disqualified were not made known.
