The All Progressives Congress (APC) screening panel has okayed 13 out of the 23 presidential aspirants for its special convention to pick a candidate ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The panel also disqualified 10 other aspirants from participating in the exercise.
The Chairman of the Screening Panel, Mr John Odigie-Oyegun, stated this on Friday while presenting the report of the panel to the APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
He said, “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.
“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 down to 13.
“We could have cut it a little shorter but we wanted the younger elements to surface.”
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