Presidential aspirant on
the platform of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has
challenged President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC) and other presidential aspirants to a debate ahead of the 2019 general
elections.
Sowore said this on
Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television programme, Politics Today.
He said presidential
aspirants should be bold enough to participate in debates about policies and
projects they will execute if they become president.
“If want you to be more
serious, you should be bringing these presidential candidates to debate us.
Buhari should be brought out. The media should force them out of their hiding.
Let them come and debate the future of Nigeria,” he said.
“These alternatives will
kick out the old guards in 2019,” Sowore declared.
He stressed that younger
presidential aspirants were the viable alternative to President Buhari and were
capable of doing much more in directing affairs of the nation if elected.
“The alternative is here,
that is what we should be debating. We should be talking about the fresh ideas
that we are bringing on the table.
“In Nigeria, when we have
people like us who have capacity, character, and integrity. We’ve got stamina,
intellect, history, and pedigree.
“Young people are here to
take their country to the next level of prosperity. We want to say goodbye to
poverty, incompetence and lackluster kind of leadership that we’ve had in
Nigeria,” he said.
Sowore claimed that
President Buhari is not willing to speak at a presidential debate because he
“is hiding under one finger and by the time you take him out, it will be very
obvious that they are no longer capable.”
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