Buhari pulls out of Presidential debate
This was revealed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC
Presidential Campaign Organisation, Garba Shehu, via a press statement
released on Thursday January 29, in Abuja.
APC presidential aspirant, Muhammadu Buhari (AP)
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari will not be participating in the upcoming presidential debate organized by the Broadcast Organization of Nigeria (BON).
This was revealed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation, Garba Shehu, via a press statement released on Thursday January 29, in Abuja.
The statement reads:
“A
salutary inspection of the composition of NEGD brings into focus the
Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), National Television
Authority (NTA), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the
Africa Independent Television (AIT, owned by a PDP chieftain).”
“And
going by the avalanche of inflammatory statements, misinformation and
blatant lies being propagated by some of these media against our Party
and candidates contrary to the Koffi Annan brokered Abuja Peace Accord,
and the failure of these aggressors to desist and apologise, have left
the APC Campaign with no option than to steer clear of any premeditated
smear campaign that could be inimical to our prospective electoral
success.”
“The APC is a party of
progressive intellectuals, genuine technocrats, successful businessmen
and women, and most of all eminent and courteous people of honour who
would never condescend to the level of sadistic gutter propaganda, all
in the name of political exigency and crass opportunism.”
“Aside,
elements close to sitting President Goodluck Jonathan have commissioned
series of derogatory and death threat advertorials against the person,
family and associates of the opposition leader, General Muhammadu
Buhari, to which the APC had sent letters of complaint to the Inspector
General of Police, the Director General of State Security, Advertisers
Practitioners of Nigeria (APCON), Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) and the erring media that published or aired such
offensive adverts or documentaries.”
“None
of our letters of protest has been attended to by the authorities. So
whatever the incumbent President wants to do with the instrument of
state to harass members of the opposition into humiliating submission
would not work. The APC/Buhari campaign is now a people’s movement. The
more they try to rubbish it, the more popular we are with the populace.”
“We
are not shadow-chasers or moonwalkers. The APC is concerned mainly with
the lack of unity and security in Nigeria; plus the growing decimation
of lives, property and territory of our great country due to preventable
insurgency; the slumbering economy; decaying educational system;
absence of jobs; poor public health; and the cancerous
institutionalization of corruption in our national life. You can’t fool
the people all the time. Nigerians will vote out their oppressors come
February 14.”
Source:Jola Sotubo: pulse.ng, re-posted by Abdulgafar Esho (www.econsforumnews.blogspot.com)
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