A senior member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has petitioned the Odigie-Oyegun committee to possess Bola Tinubu disqualified.
The petitioner, who has membership number KN/TRN/38/08417, urged the committee to scrutinize all of Tinubu' credentials to avoid a repeat of what happened in Bayelsa, wherever a certificate forgery issue price the APC the state.
To copy his claims, the petitioner connected numerous documents against Tinubu. Meanwhile, things seemed to have picked up for the ruling APC once weeks of sluggish preparations for its presidential convention, because it finally began screening its presidential aspirants yesterday.
The party, that had maintained strict secrecy concerning the exercise, additionally barred journalists from the venue. John Odigie-Oyegun, the chairman of the screening panel and a former National Chairman of the party, failed to straightaway reply to newsmen inquiries about his team' activities.
Legislator Ali Modu Sheriff, the previous governor of Borno State and therefore the party' chieftain, denounced those that have launched a presidential campaign for him by putting his posters in strategic locations throughout the nation' capital.
Legislator Ike Ekweremadu, the previous Deputy President of the Senate, was additionally at the APC' national secretariat yesterday for a private meeting with legislator Abdullahi Adamu, the party' National Chairman.
Following his loss within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, situation election in Enugu State, Ekweremadu' visit to the ruling party' national chairman has burning defection rumors. Since the screening was deferred indefinitely many days ago, the party has remained tight-lipped concerning the makeup of the screening panel and a brand new date for the exercise.
Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, the previous Minister of State for Education, was the primary to be screened, followed by Abubakar Badaru, the governor of Jigawa State, Uji Kennedy Ohanenye, Pastor Tunde Bakare, legislator Henry M. Robert Ajayi Borroffice, and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was still being screened at the time of publication.