The Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG) has
announced that the presidential debate for the February 14 presidential
election will hold on February 8 just as the vice presidential debate will hold
on February 1.
Announcing the debate
yesterday in Abuja in a press conference ,chairman of the NEDG ,Sola Omole said
13 out of the 14 candidates for the presidential and vice presidential debates
have confirmed their participation in the debates
The Nigerian Election
Debate Group (NEDG), organizers of the Presidential Debate Series, is an
amalgamation of the Nigeria’s Mass Media, Print and Electronic, the Newspaper
Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN, The Broadcasting Organisation of
Nigeria (BON), The Nigeria Bar Association, National Association of Nigerian
Students, NANS, market women and other civil society groups.
Omole noted that
debates are a major component of any democracy as the candidates will have the
opportunity of interacting with the Nigerian electorate and based on that
Nigerians will make informed decisions going into the polls
He also stressed that
the debates will be strictly on issues and appealed to all the candidates that
their language must be decent and not derogatory, no hate and inciting comments
will be tolerated adding that NEDG believes all political interactions and
activities should be at a respectable level.
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