Two unnamed presidential aspirants have been disqualified from contesting the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The chairman of the PDP screening committee and former president of the Senate, David Mark, disclosed this at the end of the Screening Exercise in Abuja on Friday.
He said the aspirants were disqualified because they did not meet the requirements to partake in the contest.
Mark declined to give the names of those involved.
He also announced that the remaining presidential aspirants in the race have been cleared, noting that any one of them who becomes the main opposition party presidential flag bearer would win the 2023 election.
Prior to the screening, there were 17 names on the PDP board for the presidential contest.
The list contains16 males and one female with four serving governors, four former governors, a former vice president, two former president of the senate, a veteran journalist and other technocrats.
They are:
HE Atiku Abubakar
HE Abubakar Bukola Saraki
HE Anyim Pius Anyim
HE Bala Mohammed
HE Aminu Waziri Tambuwal
Ayobami Dele Momodu
Oliver Tariela Diana
Nwachukwu Amakwenze
Mohammed Hayatu-Deen
HE Nyesom Wike
Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa
HE Emmanuel Gabriel Udom
HE Peter Obi
HE Ayo Fayose
Barr Ugwu Charles Okwudili
Rt Hon. Chikwendu Kalu
Rt. Hon Ndukwe Cosmos
