The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Screening Panel, John Oyegun, has explained the reasons behind the disqualification of 10 presidential aspirants.
WITHIN NIGERIA had earlier reported that 10 presidential aspirants were disqualified from participating in the ruling party’s primary just 3 days to the election.
Oyegun while presenting the screening report to APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, said the panel considered the quality of people who want to lead the nation before making their decision.
He said: “The point I want to make is the quality of the people that want to govern this country.
“We are a governing party and so the ability to lead, the background, experience… it is on the basis that we made a shortlist.
“I won’t want to read the names, I’d leave that to you, but we brought the number down to 13.
“We could have cut it a little shorter but we wanted the younger elements to surface.”
Details of the presidential aspirants who did not make the cut are not yet known.