The General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare said he would be willing to step down if the party mulls a consensus candidate.<\/p>\n
Bakare last night appeared before the John Odigie-Oyegun-led All Progressives Congress (APC) screening panel.<\/span><\/p>\n Eleven other aspirants, including the National Leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Ameachi, Jigawa State Governor Abubakar Badaru, Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi, and the only female aspirant Uju Ken-Ohanenye also faced the panel.<\/span><\/p>\n The rest are Former Minister of State, Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba; Senator Ajayi Boroffice, Felix Nicholas, former Senate President Ken Nnamani, Senator Ibikunle Amosu and Senator Sani Yarima Ahmed.<\/span><\/p>\n He said: \u201cThe party supremacy is the utmost essence. You cannot force your way through a party\u2019s structure. The party has the final say. And when we get to that bridge, we will know how to cross it.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe screening exercise is to check who is guilty and who is not. And it depends on the people who are doing the screening. By God\u2019s grace, we have complied with everything demanded. We have supplied every information,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Twenty-eight forms were sold, but only 23 aspirants are listed for screening. <\/span><\/p>\n Eleven, including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Senate President Ahamad Lawan, will be screened today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare said he would be willing to step down if the party mulls a consensus candidate. Bakare last night appeared before the John Odigie-Oyegun-led All Progressives Congress (APC) screening panel. Eleven other aspirants, including the National Leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,4135,3528,4846],"class_list":["post-8566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-consensus-candidate","tag-pastor-tunde-bakare","tag-step-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8566\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}