30 Governorship Aspirants Screened By PDP In North East

The Screening Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has disclosed that it has screened the party’s 30 governorship aspirants in the North-East including Adamawa, Bauchi , Borno , Gombe. Taraba and Yobe.

Mr John Mathew, the Chairman of the five-man committee, made this development known to NAN in Bauchi, while also disclosing that one of the aspirants was disqualified.

He added further that the rest 29 met the electoral and party requirements to contest in the primaries in their respective states.

‎’’We screened all the 30 governorship aspirants and issued them with qualification certificates. One of the aspirants was disqualified for some reasons which will not be disclosed here.
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“Despite that, we gave him the disqualified aspirants certificate and reasons for his disqualification as a governorship aspirant,” he said.

Matthew, who said most of the aspirants were not seeking the office for the first time, added that they presented all the required documents to the screening committee.

“The aspirants showed their voters’ cards, membership cards, tax clearance, age declaration certificates, educational qualifications, birth certificates and other statutory requirements by the Federal Government and the party.
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“So we are satisfied that the aspirants met the requirements for governorship in their states,” Matthew said.