Buhari
Shortly after the Nigerian Election Debate Group, NEDG, announced final dates for the 2015 presidential debates, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organization, APCPCO, announced that the duo of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and Professor Yemi Osinbajo will not be participating in the exercise.
The Organization attributed its candidate’s boycott of the debates to its perception that most of the organizations behind the debate are sympathetic to the PDP-controlled federal government and have exhibited their bias against the APC and its candidates in what they air to the public.
But reacting through its Media and Publicity Committee Chairman, Mr Tony Akiotu, the NEDG called on the APC presidential candidate to reconsider his decision not to participate in the debate, advising him to take advantage of the exercise to promote himself as well as the programmes and policies he intends to pursue if elected.
Speaking in the same vein, founding Chairman/Consultant of the NEDG, Mr Taiwo Alimi, insisted that the debate was very credible and non-partisan, emphasizing that the NEDG remains the greatest platform for those who want to let Nigerians know what they will do and how they will go about it if elected.
Meanwhile, the opposition party left no one in doubt of its decision to boycott the NEDG debates last Sunday as its Vice Presidential candidate, Professor Osinbajo, refused to show up for the intellectual exercise despite pleas by a section of Nigerians for the party to reconsider its position on the debate.
It is in the light of the foregoing that DAILY POST seeks to know if it was right for the APC’s candidates to have declined from this month’s presidential poll.[polldaddy poll=8626770]
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