Former National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has been named the head of the screening of the presidential aspirants of the party.
This was just as former Governor Ibikunle Amosun and Governor of Jigawa State Abubakar Badaru appeared before the panel at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.
Journalists were barred from covering the proceedings.
The emergence of Oyegun as chairman of the screening panel was said to have created panic in the camp of former Governor of Lagos State Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu had allegedly engineered the ouster of Oyegun at the party chairman to pave the way for equally former chairman Adam Oshiomhole.
Also Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi had appeared before the panel.
The panel was reportedly inaugurated earlier in the early hours of Monday.