Janet Samuel, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has inaugurated the screening and appeal committee. For the Ondo State Governorship primary slated for the 20th of this month
The screening committee chaired by the former Deputy Governor of Gombe State also has a former member of the House of Representatives, Bimbo Daramola, as the secretary.
Other members of the screening committee include Pastor Jones Erue, High Chief Second Bakor, Magaret Duru, Prof. Chukwudi Ledirick and Hon. Abdul Rahim Balogun.
In the same vein, the five-man Screening Appeal Committee to be chaired by Senator Oseni Yakubu that represebted kogi central in the 9th senate was inaugurated with Hon. Abu Bakar Nuhu Danburam serving as Secretary.
Other members of the appeal committee include Emmanuel Ekeh, Pious Idele, and Ibrahim Magaji Dosara.
The screening exercise is to commenced today at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja after the inauguration of the Senator Joshua Lidani-led seven-member Ondo Governorship Screening Committee and the five-man Screening Appeal Committee by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
Spaaking during the inauguration. The Deputy National Organising Secretary, Nze Chidi Duru, urged them to undertake the exercise with diligence, discipline, and friendliness
He said, “it is important to stress the fact on the point that the screening committee, the exercise that you are being asked to perform on behalf of the party and we believe that you undertake the exercise with necessary diligence, discipline, of course, friendliness, that the work requires, unfortunately and I don’t envy you”.
” It was meant to be a two-day exercise, only because an additional day was added to the national holiday. So we have to compress the two days into one day. This means that you will work round the clock to be able to complete the exercise within the timeframe that we have projected. And we also have to lean a basket of the candidates into definite categories to enable it to be flawless and smooth sailing and enable the work to be more reasonably organized.”
According to Duru, ” It’s important again to stress that the work of the appeal committee only starts when the screening committee has finished their work. It is important that when they finish your work within the timeframe allowed, they can hand over their report, not just the documents, you hand over your report. For us the secretariat, we will also help you to midwife most of the things that will be required and then hand it over to the appeal committee that will start their work tomorrow, when they complete their work, we can then get the clearance otherwise, to the candidates. So the work is intertwined, ” he said.
He went further to say that ” if there is any request or any support that you need, Malam Tasir will be there to render any support. All the files of candidates will be made available to you for you to look at scrutinize and then make your comments. The committee at this moment stands inaugurated. I wish you the very best of luck, we will support you in any way you need assistance in the process.”
