APC governors shortlist Tinubu, Osinbajo, three others for presidential primaries
Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have shortlisted five aspirants ahead of the party’s presidential primaries.
Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong announced this on Tuesday while featuring on a Channels TV programme Sunrise Daily.
He said three aspirants were picked from the South West, while one each was picked from the South South and South East.
The shortlisted aspirants are Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; National Leader of the Party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi; his Ebonyi colleague, David Umahi and former Minster for Transportaion, Rotimi Amaechi.
“From our own recommendations, as of this morning, we recommended five people. In alphabetical order, we said Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, John Kayode Fayemi, David Umahi and Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Those are the ones we made recommendations and we said we should put them forward,” he stated.
“Consensus is possible. Right from yesterday up till today, we have been doing consultations like Mr President said, ‘I give you the opportunity, work on it.’
“The governors and the National Working Committee will continue on that consensus. As of yesterday, we were able to even reduce, made recommendations of about five persons, from 23 to recommendations of about 13 aspirants without disqualifying anybody.
“Within that 13 aspirants that were graded by the Screening Committee, we now looked at it and then recommended, that was jointly done by the Progressive governors and members of the National Working Committee, reducing it to five.”
