The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress has approved nine Kogi governorship aspirants out of the 16 screened to contest the party’ s primaries scheduled to hold on Wednesday, August 29.
The party in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary , Mallam Lanre Issa -Onilu, in Abuja on Wednesday , said that the NWC of the party took the decision after deliberating on the report of screening and appeal committees for the party’ s Kogi governorship aspirants .
“ After a comprehensive review of the submissions by the two committees , relying on the party’ s guidelines and the provisions of the Electoral Act , nine aspirants were finally cleared to contest the August 29, 2019 Indirect Governorship primary.
“ Seven other aspirants did not meet the requirements for participation in the exercise .“ Those cleared by the NWC are Governor Yahaya Bello, Hadiza Ibrahim , Yahaya Audu, Sani Abdullahi , Abubakar Bashir , Danlami Mohammed, Yakubu Mohammed, Hassan Abdullahi and Blessing Ekele.
“ The aspirants who are not cleared are Prof. Mohammed Onaili , Usman Jibrin , Mustapha Mona Audu , Rukkaya Ibrahim , Gen . Patrick Akpa , Babatunde Irukera , and Muhammed Audu, ” Issa- Onilu said .