APC clears more aspirants for Kogi primary, upholds ex-Cross River REC disqualification
This brings to nine the number of aspirants out of the 16 that purchased nomination forms to contest the election.It further upheld the disqualification of the immediate past Resident Electoral Commissioner for Cross River state, Frankland Briyal saying it could find evidence of his membership of the party, having joined less than one month to the primary in Bayelsa.
The screening committee headed by Senator Hope Uzodinma had disqualified 12 of the 16 aspirants for the primary for not meeting some of the requirement spelt out in the guidelines. The party however refused to give their approval to Prof. Mohammed Seidu Onaili, Usman Oyibe Jibrin. Mustapha Mona Audu Rukkaya Ibrahim, Gen. Patrick Adenu Akpa, Babatunde Ayo Kunle Irukera and Muhammed Abubakar Unukwu Audu.
The statement reads: “the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress has deliberated on the reports of the screening and appeal committees for the Party’s Kogi Governorship aspirants.
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