Fela Durotoye, the presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), has come under severe criticisms.
Social media users have taken to social media to condemn a remark he made about his running mate for the 2019 presidential election, Khadijah Iyah Abdullahi.
Durotoye, a renowned motivational speaker, featured in the televised debate held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, on Saturday.
While President Muhammadu Buhari (All Progressives Congress) and Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party) stayed away, Oby Ezekwesili (Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), and Kingsley Moghalu of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) attended.
During the programme, Durotoye said he was running for office with “a beautiful and delectable lady” while responding to a question on gender inclusivity.
The choice of words has landed him in trouble as some Nigerians are saying the description was inappropriate.
Some reactions gathered by DAILY POST are as below:
@AdakuUfere: JJustwatched Fela Durotoye call his female vice presidential candidate “ beautiful and delectable” during a presidential debate. These men can not help themselves
@DrCOmole: Justthinking aloud, is it me or did I hear Fela Durotoye call his female vice presidential candidate “beautiful & delectable” during the BON presidential debate? Hmmm I would have chosen different words. A political debate is not the forum to use such words in my view
@Papadonkee: Saw this live. @feladurotoye fell my hand big time. That’s why she’s your running mate? B/cos she’s beautiful & delectable ? I thought we left #menaskum behind in 2018. She is stunning sha. I was seated behind
@madeofhuman: “Beautiful and delectable “? @feladurotoye whaaat???? #2019Debate
@tochie_nacho: Did #FelaDurotoye just refer to his running partner as delectable and beautiful ? Really? Na beauty make you choose am?
@YvetteDimiri: Omg .. #FelaDurotoye …”a beautiful and delectable ” running mate?? REALLY??? NO OTHER WORDS?
@ogahmarvin: Fela Durotoye called his running mate. ” Beautiful and Delectable ” Hmmm How did he know that she is “Delectable”
@ToluSotomi: @feladurotoye just called his running mate ‘beautiful and delectable ’;VERY INAPPROPRIATE. Obviously the only thing she has to offer is her beauty and sex appeal and right on the subject of the marginalization of the girl-child/ women in the country. #Presidentialdebate2019
@MsToyeEducator: Very flaky and lacking in substance. Very disappointing that when referring to your female vice presidential candidate, the two adjectives you could think of were ‘beautiful and delectable.’ Simply unacceptable in 2019.
@fluis10: Did @feladurotoye forget his running mate’s name? Say na beautiful and delectable
@a_nickabugu: So d moderator asked a question on gender inclusivity and Fela Durotoye decided to tell us his running mate is ” beautiful and delectable .” The irony. A televised Presidential debate and those were his first words? Did d man think he was introducing some edible flower on the menu?
@demolamajeks: @feladurotoye introduced his running mate as “beautiful & delectable” what part of the qualification for the job is that?? I’m shocked that someone as enlightened as him would do that. I guess gender equality/respect hasn’t gone as far as I thought.
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