Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) previous candidate for governor of Edo State, stated on Wednesday that he does not have time for the committee the party established to reduce the number of candidates.
This was said by Ize-Iyamu in an interview with Politics Today on Channels TV.
Ize-Iyamu asserts that the only body with the authority to form a screening committee in the state is the APC’s National Working Committee (NWC).
“You can’t screen people who have expressed interest in running for office,” he declared. It goes beyond simply stating on social media that I’m an aspirant. In order to be considered as a candidate, you must get a nomination form and pay for an expression of interest form. That is what makes you an aspirant.
“The APC is very organized. We have a timetable for screening forms after you have paid for the nomination form and collected your expression of interest form, which we have just done. After that, you submit, and the national working committee of the party will constitute a committee to screen the aspirant.
Referring to the internal trimming committee as a screening committee is absurd. The National Working Committee is the only group that could have named such committee, but they haven’t. They follow a schedule. In February, that would be completed. I attended the gathering. That committee, which is called a screening committee, is not something I have time for.
