2023: Buhari to meet APC Presidential aspirants Wednesday

Newsflash Nigeria StaffMay 24, 2022

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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday meet the 25 Presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The meeting is expected to take place a day after the Presidential screening at the party which takes place on Tuesday (today).

NEWSFLASH NIGERIA had reported that President Buhari would be meeting all of the aspirants this week to foster unity and promote a consensus.

According to Punch, the meeting of the 25 APC presidential aspirants will take place on Wednesday after the part’s screening.

It was learnt that the party would be open to refunding money spent by some aspirants that step down.

“The president will be meeting with all the aspirants on Wednesday. It has become imperative for the presidency to plead with them to settle for the party’s consensus candidate,” said a party source.

On Monday the APC National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Argungu, said the postponement of the screening became necessary as the screening panel had not been constituted.

This is even as the National Organising Secretary disclosed that a seven-man panel, comprising a member from each of the six geo-political zones, would be set up by the National Working Committee to undertake the screening.

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While his excuse for the screening postponement may appear tenable, a source in the secretariat told our correspondent that the said constitution of screening panels is just a smokescreen.

According to him, it is part of the grand plan of the party to put its house and compel the presidential aspirants to buy into proposed consensus talks.

Meanwhile, the APC for the umpteenth time has revised the timetable and schedule of activities for the governorship, state House of Assembly, Senate and House of Representatives Primary Elections.

The development comes a day after the National Working Committee postponed the screening of the presidential screening exercise.

The revised timetable was announced by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, on Monday night on Wednesday at the APC Secretariat in Abuja.

Morka stated that the recently cleared 145 governorship and State House of Assembly aspirants will test their popularity at the primaries that will be determined by state and local government delegates respectively on Thursday, May 26.

On Friday, May 27, the 340 senatorial aspirants who recently got a clean bill of health at the party screening will undergo another litmus test to win the votes of their local government delegates.

The last primary, which involved the House of Representatives aspirants will be determined by local government delegates on Saturday, May 28.

On the special convention for the Presidential Primary, Morka disclosed that “It will be held as scheduled on Sunday, 29th – Monday, 30th of May, 2022.”