Segun Sowunmi, spokesperson of
the Atiku Campaign Organisation, and Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transport, had
a clash of words at the first 2019 presidential debate.
The debate, which was hosted by
The Osasu Show and held at NAF Conference Centre and Suites, had Sowunmi as the
representative Atiku Abubakar, while President Muhammadu Buhari sent no one.
Speaking on the plans of the
Atiku campaign as raised by Sowunmi, Amaechi, who was not on the debate panel,
raised up his hands to ask questions from the Peoples Democratic Party
representative.
He said the Atiku-Obasanjo led a
privatisation of Nigeria’s assets to their cronies.
“The first question is that they
privatised, to who? Who did they privatise to? To themselves, and they are
coming back. Then I was a young man, I didn’t have money to buy,” Amaechi said.
“Question number two, let me
thank the woman who said power had improved. Under them, with $16 billion, we
had 3,000 megawatts of power, now we have 7,000.
“Three, and finally, on railways,
we all go to Kaduna. We are talking about railway, who has the railway? Our
government right?”.
Responding to Amaechi, Sowunmi
said Amaechi was speaking trash, rather than sticking to an issue-based
campaign.
“An eight-year governor of a
state in PDP comes to public space, riding on the alleged integrity of just
President Muhammadu Buhari, and speaking trash to the people, what exactly is
this,” Sowunmi said.
“Now, we had assumed, we had
signed up to an issue-based campaign, and we just want to beg the operators of
this present government to stick to the issues.
“We speak about opening up the
economy to make sure that those who have the competencies to drive growth must
be given the enabling environment to create value, and our people can plug in.”
Sowunmi went on to speak to some
of the issues regarding the campaign, on behalf of his principal, saying the
government should stick to regulation and let those with capacities run
businesses.
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