Ayodele Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to ensure he attends the presidential debate slated for tomorrow.
Presidential debate for candidates of political parties is billed to hold on January 19.
Mr
Fayose, factional head of the South West campaign organisation of Atiku
Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made the
call on Friday.
Messrs Buhari and Abubakar are major contestants
in the presidential election scheduled for February 16. They are
expected to participate in the debate.
There are insinuations in
some quarters that the president who seeks a second term in office will
dodge the debate. As at press time, POLITICS TIMES could not verify if
the APC flag-bearer would be present at the parley.
“They
challenged @atiku to travel to US, he is there now. We are challenging
President Buhari to come and debate tomorrow, no excuse!” Fayose
tweeted.
Mr Abubakar, a former vice president popularly known as
Atiku on Thursday travelled to the United States, the first since he
left office in 2007.
Since he left office he has been unable to
visit the country, this the All Progressive Congress (APC) maintained
was because of corruption allegations involving him at the U.S.
Atiku’s
visit has rattled the APC-led adminstration, forcing it to dug out a
fresh corruption allegation against the former number two citizen.
The government said the former vice president has issues to clarify on his role on the collapse of Bank PHB.
Source:- Politicstimesng
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