The presidential candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has given one reason he
may not participate in the forthcoming presidential debate.
Speaking through the Spokesman of
the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Kassim Afegbua, Atiku said he would only
attend the debate on the condition that the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari will also be on ground.
Atiku said he would only
participate if Buhari will be available for the engagement.
Atiku stated this in reaction to
the statement by the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against
Corruption, Prof Itse Sagay that President Buhari will not debate with political
dwarfs.
He berated Sagay for making such
a statement, saying the erudite professor has become a turncoat academic.
He said, “When you realised that
a supposed law professor like Itse Sagay now talks with tongue in cheek, you
easily know that societal values and morality have become debased.
“When you realised that he once
taught in the University, then the senility of his intellect has attained
double jeopardy.
“Itse Sagay has not only become a
turncoat academic but one whose sight invokes pity, sympathy and empathy. How
can APC presidential candidate who has been fighting ‘battles’ with his WASC
consider others who are duly qualified and well read as dwarfs?
“Does it not suggest that
something is amiss somewhere?
“Who is actually a dwarf here? Is
it a presidential candidate running away from debate or one who is challenging
the other to a debate?
“Didn’t you see them packaging a
phoney debate for him where he would have studied the questions and answers and
regurgitate them to the best of what would have been prepared for him?
“If the APC presidential
candidate is not presenting himself for debate, we will not allow our
presidential candidate to attend any debate. But if APC candidate is ready to
engage our candidate, he is ready and prepared for him.”
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