Screening: APC places Tinubu, Osinbajo, Amaechi, 10 ors on “safe list”
Bakare, Okorocha, Ayade, 7 ors on red list
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The Screening Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has recommended that Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and the erstwhile Minister for Transportation, former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, and ten other presidential aspirants be placed on a “safe list” after the screening of the aspirants earlier in the week.
The Committee also recommended that Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, former Imo State Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade and seven others be placed on a red list.
Other aspirants placed on the “safe list” include:
- Senate President, Ahmad Lawan
- Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State
- Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi
- Former Minister of State for Education, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba
- Former Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu
- Former Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun
- Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman, South East Governor’s forum, Engr. David Nweze Umahi
- Governor of Jigawa State, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar
- Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and,
- Mr Tein Jack-Rich,
Meanwhile the rest seven aspirants excluded from the safe list are:
- Former Governor of Zamfara State, Ahmad Sani Yerima
- Former Senate President, Ken Nnamani
- Mr. Ikeobasi Mokelu
- Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole
- Mr. Felix Nicholas
- Ms. Uju Ken-Ohanenye, and,
- Professor Robert Ajayi Boroffice
A source disclosed that all twenty-three aspirants screened were cleared and qualified but the committee recommended a “safe list” of thirteen names.
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It is not immediately clear why the recommendation to place some on safe list was made but a source suggested it may be to clear the coast for some aspirants while ‘throwing others under the bus’.
