{"id":147274,"date":"2019-08-28T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=147274"},"modified":"2019-08-28T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:36:31","slug":"kogi-bayelsa-guber-apc-states-position-on-report-of-screening-appeal-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=147274","title":{"rendered":"Kogi, Bayelsa guber: APC states position on report of screening, appeal committees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has upheld the reports of the screening and appeal committees for the Bayelsa governorship aspirants.<\/p>\n

This was contained in a statement Tuesday night by Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary.<\/p>\n

Of the seven governorship aspirants that were screened, six were cleared to participate in the governorship primary in Bayelsa state.<\/p>\n

They are: Mr. Aganaba Preye Steven, Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, Prince Ebitimi Christopher Amgbare, Ms. Diseye Nsirim Poweigha, Mr. Lyon David Pereworimini, and Engr. Prof (Mrs.) Ongoebi Maureen Etebu.<\/p>\n

Dr. Briyai Oyeins Frankland was not cleared to participate in the Party\u2019s governorship primary.<\/p>\n

The APC NWC upheld the disqualification of Dr. Briyai Oyeins Frankland based on Section 3 Paragraph \u201cL\u201d of the Party\u2019s guidelines for the nomination of candidates which requires that aspirants are card-carrying member of the party for a period of one year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party also found no record of his membership of APC and was therefore considered ineligible\u201d, the statement added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has upheld the reports of the screening and appeal committees for the Bayelsa governorship aspirants. This was contained in a statement Tuesday night by Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary. Of the seven governorship aspirants that were screened, six were cleared to participate in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,1154,499],"class_list":["post-147274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-bayelsa","tag-kogi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}