Buhari Boycotts Presidential debate

                    


The APC presidential candidate General  Buhari will not be participating in the presidential debate coming up in February, according to Garba  Shehu  The Director of Media and Publicity of APC presidential campaign organisation,he said the key organizer are biased against APC Corporate interest and it's candidate.

He also argued that the Nigeria Election Debate Group is composed with agencies who are allies to the president and the PDP
“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),” Shehu said.


“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,” he said. 

“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 institutionalisation of corruption in our national life. You can’t fool the people all the time. Nigerians will vote out their oppressors come February 14.”

 Garba added that Buhari would exempt himself only from debates being organised by broadcast stations that have denigrated and maligned his person and his family.

 “Other presidential debates to which General Muhammadu Buhari has been invited are, however, still under consideration. General Muhammadu Buhari has been preparing for the debates,” he said.

He urged the public not to see the APc boycott as disrespect for Nigerian voters or an alibi for the party to dodge public scrutiny, but to view it as an honourable right not to consent to any activity that could distract, demean, denigrate or derail the fast-moving train of the party.