{"id":60790,"date":"2022-11-06T21:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynews24.ng\/?p=60790"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T20:34:51","slug":"tinubu-atiku-boycott-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynews24.ng\/tinubu-atiku-boycott-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu, Atiku boycott presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu and his counterpart in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar were both missing at a town hall series designed to enable aspirants to speak on their plans for Nigeria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Atiku was represented by his running mate, Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa.<\/p>\n<p>Among some of the candidates of Nigeria\u2019s 18 presidential candidates who were invited for the debate, a \u2018presidential town hall\u2019 organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development and Arise Television, only Peter Obi of the Labour Party; Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, (NNPP) and presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, Kola Abiola, attended the event in person.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AriseTVTownHall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AriseTVTownHall<\/a> OKOWA ON INSECURITY:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to emphasize coordinated intelligence gathering and sharing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need more boots on the ground to address insecurity in Nigeria. We need to evolve policing in Nigeria to ensure that people who have a better understanding\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Official PDP Nigeria (@OfficialPDPNig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialPDPNig\/status\/1589348251014078465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The candidates were selected based on the performance of their parties in an online survey by the organisers during which all the 18 political parties were listed in alphabetical order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result of this survey informed our decision to invite the highest four scoring parties \u2013 LP, APC, PDP and NNPP to the town hall,\u201d the Director of the CDD, Idayat Hassan, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Vanguard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu and his counterpart in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar were both missing at a town hall series designed to enable aspirants to speak on their plans for Nigeria. 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