The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential council has listed conditions to be fulfilled by the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi if he intends to have an open debate with their party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Newsonline reports that the conditions given by Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign organization followed a challenge by the Labour Party to the APC for an open debate between the two presidential candidates.
Festus Keyamo, the APC presidential campaign organization spokesman who disclosed this on Tuesday in reaction to Labour Party’s challenge said Peter Obi former governor of Anambra State cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with Tinubu, former governor of Lagos.
Keyamo said a party without manifesto and whose presidential candidate cannot name one person he mentored as a former governor cannot challenge Tinubu for an open debate.
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Keyamo said, “They have no manifesto, so what are we debating? What documents are we comparing? He said Nigerians should depend on what is inside his brain, not on any document. So, Asiwaju will then be debating with what? Is this campaign a joke to them? Do they think this is a Debating and Dramatic society in school?”
He argued, ”Before Obi can stand shoulder to shoulder with Asiwaju to debate, he should first release a manifesto for scrutiny; then he should list his tangible achievements as Governor of Anambra State compared to the tangible achievements of Asiwaju as Governor of Lagos State.”
Keyamo further challenged ”Then he should list those he has mentored in politics from the days of his being Governor who is still with him now; then he should tell us any political party he has either formed or partnered to form and which he still belongs to today.
“Then he should list his democratic credentials, that is what he did to contribute to the return to democracy from Military rule and what he has since done, better than Asiwaju, to sustain our democracy”.
