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Buhari In Crucial Meeting With ‘Safe List’ APC Aspirants Saturday

by Bode Gbadebo
3 years ago
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President Muhammadu Buhari would meet with the aspirants on the shortlist of the All Progressives Congress (APC) screening committee at the Presidential Villa in Abuja this (Saturday) evening.

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The APC presidential primary is expected to be held on Monday and Tuesday.

“This meeting would give a clearer indication of who the President’s preferred candidate might be,” a Presidency source said on Saturday afternoon. “Remember that the President had appealed to Progressive governors to work with him to choose his successor before he travelled.”

LEADERSHIP exclusively published a list of the 13 of the aspirants on a “safe list”, presented to the party’s chairman Abdullahi Adamu at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Friday by the John Odigie-Oyegun screening committee.

The committee said it was necessary to prune the number of aspirants to make the primary manageable, but rejected suggestions that those outside the list stood disqualified.

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Those recommended in the list were: APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi; Senate President Ahmad Lawan; Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, and Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

Others were: Former junior minister for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba; former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; former Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun; Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi; and Jigawa State Governor, Abubakar Badaru.

Two other aspirants, former Minister of the Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio and Mr. Tein Jack-Rich, were believed to have made the list after the committee submitted its report.

Another Presidency source told our correspondent on Saturday that Buhari, who is expected back from an extraordinary meeting of ECOWAS in Accra, would meet those on the “safe list”, though the invitation may be slightly extended to accommodate a broader number outside the list.

“The Odigie-Oyegun screening committee recommended that the President should meet with those on the “safe list” as soon as he returns,” the source said. “The party, on the other hand, will meet those not shortlisted.”

The ten aspirants excluded from the shortlist are: Pastor Tunde Bakare; former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha; Cross Rivers State Governor, Ben Ayade; former Zamfara State Governor, Sani Yerima; former Senate President, Dr. Ken Nnamani, and Senator Ajayi Borrofice.

Others are: Former Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Ikeobasi Mokelu; former Speaker, Demeji Bankole; US-based Pastor Felix Nicholas; and Mrs. Uju Ken-Ohanenye.

Twenty- three aspirants, who each paid N100m for nomination and intention of interest forms, were screened on May 30 and 31.

 

 

 


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