BREAKING: Reduce aspirants, ensure true party man becomes presidential candidate, Buhari tells APC governors

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to ensure that a true party man emerges as the presidential candidate of the party.

The president urged the governors to align on their interests so that the party can have a presidential candidate that can win the election and a candidate the Nigerian masses will believe in even before the election.

Buhari met with all the 22 governors before his departure to Spain on a State Visit.

APC has slated its presidential nomination convention for June 6-7, 2022.

WesternPost gathered that President Buhari also told the governors and the party chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who attended the meeting that the party should work to reduce the number of the presidential aspirants to a manageable size from the current 23 before the convention.

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, also admonished the party leadership to reduce the number of the aspirants when she led women delegation to the National Chairman last week.

It would be recalled that 28 aspirants paid N100 million each to obtain the expression of interest and nomination forms and only 23 returned their nomination forms before the deadline.

The party has set up a screening panel, led by former National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, that started work on Monday 30th May, 2022.

The screening of the presidential aspirants is expected to end today (Tuesday), while the panel is expected to send its recommendations to the National Working Committee.