By Arogbonlo Israel.
There is a brewing tension regarding reports of disqualification of several Kogi governorship aspirants of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with many of them holding different strategy-review meetings in Abuja on Monday to decide their immediate political future should the party hierarchy uphold their disqualification.
The committee report which was obtained by this reporter shows that only four out of the 16 contestants were cleared by the committee among which is the incumbent Governor, Yahaya Bello, Engr. Abubakar Bashir, Mrs Ekele Aishat Blessing and a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Hassan Abdullahi Baiwa.
From the information gathered, the aspirants were disqualified based on sundry issues including not having Permanent Voter Cards PVCs, not being a financial member of the party, not being a member of the party for at least one year, age discrepancies, invalid nomination and not being a registered member of the APC at the ward level.
Some of the aspirants, it was gathered are currently holding meetings with their supporters in Abuja to decide on their next line of action. Many of them had canvassed the disqualification of Gov. Bello on the grounds that he was discovered to have registered twice for a Permanent Voter Card PVC, saying he is liable to prosecuting by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.
The National Working Committee NWC of the party would, however, meet to deliberate on the committee’s report and decide whether to grant a waiver to any of the aspirants, especially those disqualified on the basis of having not been a member of the party for more than one year.
