From Elohor Igbru, Abuja
The ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC on Saturday sets up 13 various panels to screen it’s 1,693 aspirants.
According to the party, the committees have two days to concluded work.
Breakdown of the aspirants reveals that 145 picked form for governorship, 351 aspirants for senatorial aspiration while 1,197 for the House of Representatives.
The screening is ahead of the May 30 party primary.
According to APC National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Argungu, the party inaugurated the chairmen and secretaries on Saturday.
He said: “We have so far 145 governorship aspirants and we have constituted three panels to screen them.
“Also, 351 aspirants have also partaken and returned the senatorial aspiration forms while we have 1,197 aspirants for the House of Representatives with 10 panels,” he revealed.
Argungu further disclosed that the party has a set of guidelines in the aspirant assessment and verification forms that will be given to each committee for the screening.
This is even as he noted that each of the panels put in place will be provided with collections of forms complete with names and expression of interest forms for guidance.
“We expect that this work will be done between today and tomorrow as the previous speakers have said. These gentlemen are conversant with this type of job and we believe this is not going to be a big assignment for all of you.
“We pray you will do justice to all the aspirants so that by 2023 we will have good credible candidates that are going to contest on the platform of our great party.
“As we all know, with the love people have for the APC we also appreciate having credible leaders that will add value to the party in the 2023 election,” he said.
