By Jude Ndukwe
The much talked about
Presidential Debate scheduled to hold on Saturday, January 19, 2019, at the
Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, has come and gone but not without its dramas
that have kept Nigerians wondering and talking about so many things including
why the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari, shunned the debate, and why his
closest challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, excused himself from it after
realizing that the incumbent was not going to be in attendance.
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| *Atiku and Buhari |
The debate was supposed to be a Presidential
Debate. Such debates world over lose their essence and savour once the
incumbent is not present, and it is unthinkable that the incumbent in the US,
for example, would miss out on such a debate since the debate is designed to
scrutinize the performance of the incumbent/his party and extract commitments
from the contenders.
