Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, his Imo State counterpart, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and the Publisher of Leadership Newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah are also cleared.
All the five candidates were forced to sign an undertaking not to leave to any other party if they failed to get the APC ticket and to support whoever emerges as candidate at the end of the primaries.
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The Committee Chairman and ex-National Chairman of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Ogbonnaya Onu while speaking before presenting clearance certificates to the five candidates who were screened on Tuesday, December, 2nd, said the time has come when Nigerians must make a conclusion whether to keep with the present state of affairs in the country or effect a change for the better.
According to Onu, the problems of the country has continued not because they are unsurmountable, but because Nigeria has not found the right leaders, pointing out that the opposition party was established to fill the emptiness and give the leadership needed for the nation to change.
This committee would want to appeal to Nigerians that the time has come for our country to take a stand. There is a choice before us. Are we going to continue the way we have been going in the last 16 years when our security forces are used to intimidate and harass the very citizens who pay for their maintenance?,” he said.
“Are we going to continue a situation where we are the sixth largest exporters of crude oil and yet we import virtually all the petroleum products that we use and as we do this, we are exporting jobs and rendering our people unemployed? Is this what Nigerians would want to do?
”Are we going to allow a situation where the rule of law is violated and there is no orderliness whatsoever? This is a choice for Nigerians. The ruling party has had 16 years and so, it is not a question of making promises. We are judging them on their records because they told us that within two years, there will be regular and reliable supply of power for 24 hours a day and seven days a week. This is the 16th year and that promise has not been fulfilled.
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So, Nigerians have a choice to make because when you have two things, you can never know until you try them. So, Nigerians ought to try the APC and give us a chance to show that the problems in the country can be solved.”
I want to also reveal that the scores were very narrow and very high, the least scored 62 percent, while the highest scored 78 percent,” he said.
Ex-Head of State, Mr. Buhari answered on behalf of the aspirants and commended the party’s leadership for putting up such a strong screening committee.
“We went through the mill yesterday on foreign affairs, security, economy and the impact of what our personal decisions are to the polity,” General Buhari said.
The opposition APC has started the screening of its presidential aspirants yesterday, December, 2nd, ahead of the party’s presidential primaries rescheduled for December 10.
As it was reported earlier four people were killed today as the result of the House of Assembly primary held by the Lagos State chapter of the APC.
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