“The Party’s National Working Committee at its meeting held on Thursday, 4th October, 2018 ratified the reports of the various Electoral Committees and adopts the under-listed as Governorship candidates of the APC for the forthcoming 2019 general elections.
The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress has cleared 24 governorship candidates to contest the 2019 elections.
This was contained in a statement signed by the APC acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Friday.
He said the decision to clear the candidates was taken at a meeting of the NWC held on Thursday.
According to him, the NWC ratified reports submitted by the various electoral committees set up by the party to conduct the exercise across the nation.
The statement read in part, “The Party’s National Working Committee at its meeting held on Thursday, 4th October, 2018 ratified the reports of the various Electoral Committees and adopts the under-listed as Governorship candidates of the APC for the forthcoming 2019 general elections.
ABDULLAHI UMAR GANDUJE – KANO STATE
MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR – BAUCHI STATE
SIMON LALONG – PLATEAU STATE
NASIR EL-RUFAI – KADUNA STATE
MOHAMMED BADARU ABUBAKAR – JIGAWA STATE
AHMED ALIYU – SOKOTO STATE
ABUBAKAR ATIKU BAGUDU – KEBBI STATE
AMINU BELLO MASARI – KATSINA STATE
ABUBAKAR SANI BELLO – NIGER STATE
BABAGANA UMARA-ZULUM – BORNO STATE
MAI MALA BUNI – YOBE STATE
ABUBAKAR A. SULE – NASARAWA STATE
EMMANUEL JIMME – BENUE STATE
BABAJIDE SANWO–OLU – LAGOS STATE
TONYE COLE – RIVERS STATE
UCHE OGAH – ABIA STATE
NSIMA EKERE – AKWA-IBOM STATE
ADEBAYO ADELABU – OYO STATE
DAPO ABIODUN – OGUN STATE
GREAT OGBORU – DELTA STATE
OWAN ENOH – CROSS-RIVER
INUWA YAHAYA – GOMBE STATE
SUNNY OGBOJI – EBONYI STATE
SANI ABUBAKAR DANLADI – TARABA STATE”
