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JUST IN: Buhari, Atiku Shun 2019 Presidential Debate
All Progressive Congress Presidential candidate and Nigeria’s President, Muhammad Buhari and former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Friday shunned the ongoing presidential debate organised by the Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON).
BigPen Online reports that Atiku who arrived the country from the United States of America earlier in the day had said he would stay away from the debate if President Buhari fails to show up.
The Presidential debate currently ongoing is holding at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, the same venue where the vice-presidential debate held on Friday, December 14, 2018.
The debate is currently being transmitted live on all BON member stations and its affiliates and streamed live on all social media platforms.
President Buhari is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) while Abubakar, a former Vice President is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Present at the venue of the debate are Oby Ezekwesili, a former Education Minister, who is the candidate of the ACPN, Kingsley Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the candidate of the YPP and Fela Durotoye who is the candidate of the ANN.
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