The presidency has spoken on
whether President Muhammadu Buhari will go for presidential debate ahead of the
2019 general elections.
According to the presidency, it
is too early to debate on whether Buhari will go for a presidential debate or
not.
Femi Adesina, Special Assistant
to the President on Media and Publicity made this statement when he appeared on
Sunrise Daily, a breakfast show on Channels Television
on Tuesday.
Asked if the president will be
ready to face other candidates for a debate, Adesina simply said, “That should
be left for the president to decide. I think it is too early for us to debate
on whether the president will go for a debate or not. All that is important now
is, the president has declared and Nigerians are happy.”
On why it took Buhari so long to
make his intention known, Adesina said, “The time has come for him to declare,
practically, if you look at the situation in APC, the party is going for an
elective convention and it is good the party goes into the convention with a
likely candidate in mind because in one way or the other, it will affect the
convention.”
Adesina had in an article
released on Monday asked prospective presidential aspirants to bury their
ambition.
He simply asked them to run away
following Buhari’s interest to run for the forthcoming 2019 elections.
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