2023 Presidency: APC in Big Trouble as Atiku Challenges Tinubu to Unscripted Debate
- Nigeria's main opposition PDP has thrown an open challenge to the leadership of the ruling APC and its flagbearer
- This is as Atiku Abubakar's camp dared Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to an unscripted debate, a few months before the 2023 general elections
- In fact, the PDP has urged Tinubu to give Nigerians a detailed explanation of his past activities in the polity
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has asked his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to stop running away from public debates as the campaigns for the 2023 presidential election hot up.
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Atiku throws an open challenge to Tinubu
Atiku spoke with Saturday Tribune through his spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday, December 23.
He then challenged the APC candidate to come out and debate with him on all issues, including governance, policies, programmes and their past.
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The PDP candidate alleged that Tinubu was avoiding de- bates so as not to answer questions surrounding his past.
Ologbondiyan said:
“We challenge Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to an unscript- ed debate with Atiku Abuba- kar because Tinubu has been dodging debates and even interviews with the media."
Atiku will defeat Tinubu, Ologbondiyan said
On his chances in the contest with Tinubu, Atiku’s spokesman boasted that the PDP candidate would defeat the APC candidate hands down in a free and fair contest.
He said,
“Tinubu does not have the requisite support that can deliver him in a presidential election. With the type of rejection that is greeting him in various states, there is no way he can secure the required 25 percent of votes in 2/3 of states."
Saraki reveals why some politicians are not happy with Emefiele, sends message to police, DSS
In another development, a message has been sent to security agencies in the country. The message was sent by former Senate president, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
According to him, they should be careful not to be manipulated by politicians as the 2023 presidential election draws nearer.
Saraki disclosed this in a statement by his Media Office in Abuja.
2023: INEC Chairman speaks on money politics, leaks top secret
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has berated the deployment of money in elections, stressing that election is not a business venture but rather an application to serve the people.
This was as the electoral umpire boss listed the negative role that money plays in elections and electioneering.
Yakubu stated these at a ‘Stakeholders’ summit on addressing the influence of money in the 2023 general election’ held in Abuja on Monday.
Source: Legit.ng
