President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting with governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the ruling party finalises plans for its national convention.
The meeting being held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja today (Tuesday) has all members of the Progressives Governors’ Forum represented.
It is expected to give guidance on who should emerge as the flagbearer of the APC amid the screening of the party’s presidential aspirants by the committee led by a former Edo State governor and former APC national chairman, John Oyegun.
Earlier, governors elected on the APC platform had expressed a desire to go along with the choice of the President on the emergence of the party’s presidential candidate.
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A total of 28 aspirants had picked the APC presidential nomination and expression of interest forms sold at N100 million.
The party dropped the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige; Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva; and Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, from aspirants to be screened by its panel because these aspirants withdrew from the race after purchasing the nomination forms.
So far, the committee has screened 12 presidential aspirants as parts of activities lined up for the party’s primary scheduled to take place between June 6 and 8.
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The remaining 11 aspirants are expected to undergo the same process on Tuesday at the screening exercise held at Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.
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