Nigeria: APC Screens Lokpobiri, 6 Others for Bayelsa Governorship

25 August 2019

Yenagoa — The National Screening Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has screened the immediate past Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, the ex-Cross River State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) Mr Frankland Briyai, and three other governorship aspirants of the party for the August 29 Bayelsa State governorship primary of the party slated for Yenagoa, the state capital.

Others who were screened by the Mr Ita Isong led National Screening Committee include a female aspirant and former Commissioner of Police, Nrs Deseye Poweigha, Ebikimi Amgbare, David Lyon and Preye Aganaba.

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