The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday ordered its presidential aspirants to sign an undertaking ahead of the Dec. 10 presidential primary.
This development was disclosed as the party presented certificates of screening to all the aspirants who scaled through the party’s screening conducted yesterday.
Explaining the rationale behind the move, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, who chaired the presidential screening committee of the party, said “we want our aspirants to sign letters of commitment to the party to assure the party that they’re running to offer service.
“To improve the wellbeing of Nigerians, to improve security and for the others to support the winner by collapsing their structures into the party so that the party can move into the elections united.
Onu said he was impressed by the scores of the aspirants, adding that they were thoroughly grilled in an effort to ascertain if they are truly competent to assume the number one office in the country.
“Yesterday, we met for hours with the aspirants, during that exercise we found these men are so distinguished that there’s not one that won’t make great difference for the country.
“During the screening, we took the members through a very rigorous path; we tested their understanding of the nation’s problems and I’m happy and satisfied with the quality of people running for president on the APC platform.
“I want to also reveal to you that the scores were very narrow and very high, the least scored 62 per cent and while the highest scored 78 per cent.
“The second even scored 77 and the third 75, it was a close call,” Onu said.
General Mohammadu Buhari, one of the aspirants, said in his response on behalf of others, that they were happy that the party put together a competent screening committee.
“We are very grateful to our great party for organising such a competent team to interview us. We went through the mill yesterday on foreign affairs, security, economy and the impact of what our personal decisions are to the polity.
“It’s a very trying time for the five of us, and we’re grateful that they’ve been very generous in their award of marks and that we all made it and the rest of the decision now is left largely to the delegates.
“The secretary has read the letter which we were made to sign yesterday so that the loyalty to the party will be supreme,” Buhari said.
Apart from Gen. Buhari, Alh. Atiku Abubakar, Dr. Sam Nda-Isaiah ,Governors Rochas Okorocha and Rabiu Kwankwaso also passed through the screening on Tuesday.
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