Benue APC panel clears 11 of 50 disqualified aspirants

The Appeal Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Benue State has approved the instrumentality of 11 aspirants who were antecedently barred from taking portion successful the party’s House of Assembly primaries.

This determination followed the panel’s reappraisal of 50 appeals submitted by dissatisfied aspirants aft the archetypal screening results were released.

In a connection on Thursday, APC State Organising Secretary, James Ornguga disclosed that 11 appeals were successful, allowing those aspirants to determination guardant to the primaries.

The remaining 39 aspirants, however, were not cleared, arsenic the committee upheld their disqualification owed to non-compliance with enactment guidelines.

The connection noted that the sheet thoroughly assessed written petitions, applicable documents, and oral grounds earlier arriving astatine its decisions.

Abubakar Lawal led the entreaty committee, portion Ade Adetimehin served arsenic caput alongside Ahmed Murtala.

Earlier successful Makurdi, the APC screening committee had disqualified astir 50 retired of 148 aspirants contesting for seats successful the Benue State House of Assembly, citing breaches of enactment rules and law requirements.

Reports indicated that respective incumbent lawmakers successfully passed the screening process.

Among those initially disqualified were Wisdom Dominic (Otukpo/Ohimini), Ndiisaa Terhemen (Logo), Ologbo Edwin (Oju II), John Ogbu (Oj...