The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
disqualified 12 gubernatorial aspirants
while the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello; a member of the House of
Representatives, Hassan Bello; Ekele
Aisha Blessing, and Mr. Abubakar Bashir
have all been cleared to contest the forthcoming primary election scheduled to
hold on August 29, 2019.
The committee which has Senator Hope Uzodimma as
its Chairman, Dr. Adamu Abba as the Secretary, Senator Abdulahi Gumel, Hon.
Bernard Mikko and Hon. Stella Okotete as members were inaugurated by the
National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomole, last Wednesday.
The committee, in a report submitted to the
chairman of the party, a copy of which was made available to journalists on Monday, revealed
that the committee arrived in Lokoja, the state capital, and proceeded to the
party secretariat for the screening exercise.
The report added that before the committee
commenced the screening for the 16 gubernatorial aspirants, its chairman
briefed the aspirants on the modalities of the screening.
However, the party, after raking in the sum of N360
million, gave a clean slate to only four aspirants.
The party had pegged the sales of gubernatorial
form at N22.5 million.
The result of the screening as submitted by the committee indicated that the incumbent state Governor, Bello, who was number
one on the list, was cleared because of his ‘strong financial contribution to
the party,’ and after all his original
and supporting documents were examined.
Abdulahi, who was number 16 in the list, was
cleared because he is a committed member of the party, after he presented his
original secondary school certificate, while Blessing was cleared because she
is a ‘team player' and Bashir was cleared because he supports a ‘consensus
candidate’.
The aspirants that were disqualified were Yahaya
Audu, Mona Audu, Mohammed Audu, Danlami Mohammed, Babatunde Irukera, Rukkaya
Ibrahim, Sani Lulu Abdulahi, Gen. Patrick Akpa (rtd), Prof. Mohammed Onaili,
Yakubu Mohammed, and Rear Admiral Usman Jibril (rtd) were disqualified.
“The committee received the separate set of
petitions against some of the aspirants and they are hereby attached. The
screening was concluded by 9:30p.m.,” the report said.
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