The presidential candidate of the All
Progressive Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari, and his Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar, are conspicuously absent at the ongoing presidential debate.
Organisers of the Presidential Debate
had slated candidates of five political parties to participate in the
debate but only three of them honoured the invitation.
They are the presidential candidate of
Young Peoples Party (YPP), Kingsely Monghalu; presidential candidate of
Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Obi Ezekwesili, and the
presidential candidate of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Fela Durotoye.
No reason was given for the absence of Buhari and Atiku when the other three participants were called to the podium.
While the absence of Buhari did not come
to many as a surprise because he shunned similar debate held ahead of
the 2015 presidential election, Atiku who returned to the country from
his visit to the US on Saturday, ostensibly to participate in the
debate, also failed to turn up.
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