The 83-year old Odigie-Oyegun said his screening panel cleared 13-youthful aspirants. But Tinubu is not in his youthful age as he just celebrated his 70th birthday this year.
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
The John Odigie Oyegun-led seven-man Presidential Screening Committee (PSC) has disqualified 10 presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to The Nation Newspaper, Odigie-Oyegun said only 13 out of the 23 aspirants scaled the screening exercise.
He spoke while submitting the report of the committee to APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
Odigie-Oyegun did not give the names of the presidential aspirants his committee screened out, but a remark he made has started to generate panic among the camp of former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu.
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The 83-year-old Odigie-Oyegun said his screening panel cleared 13-youthful aspirants. But Tinubu is not in his youthful age as he just celebrated his 70th birthday this year.
Recall that a member of the Odigie-Oyegun committee, Sagir Iyali, petitioned the party’s presidential screening committee to disqualify Tinubu, over alleged certificate and age forgeries.
In Iyali’s petition dated May 17, 2022, which was submitted on Monday, May 30, with a receipt acknowledged by one Emmanuel Akpan, a member of the screening committee, he cited false claims bordering on Tinubu’s academic qualifications, age and state of origin.
The petition was addressed and sent to Odigie-Oyegun in his capacity as chairman of the presidential screening committee.
Odigie-Oyegun himself has an axe to grind with Tinubu after allegedly masterminded his removal as national chairman of the APC.
Here is the list of the aspirants screened by the Odigie-Oyegun panel and their ages.
- Yemi Osibanjo – Vice President – 65 years
- Ben Ayade – Cross River Governor- 54 years
- Dave Umahi – Ebonyi Governor 59 years
- Kayode Fayemi – Ekiti Governor 57 years
- Yahaya Bello – Kogi Governor 47 years
- Mohammed Abubakar – Jigawa Governor 59 years
- Ahmed Lawal – Senate President 63 years
- Ajayi Boroffice – Senator 73 years
- Rochas Okorocha – former Imo Governor, now Senator 60 years
- Ibikunle Amosun – former Ogun Governor, now Senator 64 years
- Bola Tinubu – former Lagos Governor 70 years
- Ahmed Yerima – former Zamfara Governor 62 years
- Ken Nnamani – former Senate President 73 years
- Dimeji Bankole – former Speaker of Representatives Speaker 53 years
- Rotimi Amaechi – former Transportation Minister 57 years
- Godswill Akpabio – former Niger Delta Minister 60 years
- Ogbonnaya Onu – former Science and Technology Minister 71 years
- Ikeobasi Mokelu – former Information Minister (Not less than 70)
- Emeka Nwajiuba – former Education Minister of State 54 years
- Tunde Bakare – Pastor 68 years
- Nicholas Nwagbo – Not much open-source information
- Tein Ric – Not much open-source information
- Uju Ohnenye -Not much open-source information