Buhari, Atiku, Rochas, others face presidential screening panel
ALL is now set for the All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention, where the party’s presidential candidate is expected to emerge. This came as five presidential aspirants on the platform of party, namely General Muhammad Buhari, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Dr Rabi’u Musa Kwankwanso, Governor Rochas Okorocha and Mr Sam Nda-Isaiah, faced the screening panel of the party.
Chairman of the screening committee, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, while addressing newsmen ahead of the screening exercise, maintained that the panel would follow the constitution the Federal Republic of Nigeria, that of the party and the Electoral Act, 2010 in the discharge of the its duty.
According to him, “we want to produce a candidate that will effect change in the country, a candidate that will be able to address the problems confronting our nation. So, in screening our aspirants, we will attach a lot of importance to the manifesto of the party.
“We will sensitise the aspirants to the urgent need of security, economy, job creation, foreign policy and corruption.
“We believe that those who will be successful in this exercise will now be presented to our national convention that will be coming in the next few days and a candidate will emerge from there.
“It is only those we deem qualified that will emerge successful at the end of the exercise. we will present certificate to those who scaled through the exercise,” he stated.
Speaking further, he said “we want to be sure of all aspirants of the party that will deserve to be presented to our delegates at the national convention and must undertake to abide by the rules and regulations of our great party, the nomination guidelines, the manifesto, the electoral act and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
“We would also want every aspirant to give us a commitment because only one will become the candidate, that at the end of the national convention, when the candidate emerges, that all others will support that person and will support the party to ensure that the party will be successful in the presidential election of February 14, 2015.
“We would also want every aspirant that will be successful of the screening to give a commitment that at the end of the exercise, including the aspirant that will become the candidate of the party, that they will collapse the structures the now have into the party so that the party will become united and move in the same direction for the success of the party in the forth coming presidential elections”, he said.
To this end, he added that, All aspirants must commit themselves to adhere strictly to the manifesto of the party should they become candidate and eventually, by the will of God, become President elect and President of the federal republic of Nigeria.
“Nigerians want change; the APC was formed to effect that change and we believe that whosoever becomes our candidate and wins to become president must abide by our manifesto so that Nigerians will know that really, there has been a change and that the problems of the party were there not because they cannot be solved, but because the proper leadership has not been put in place”, he said.
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