wesley80:

@OP,
U've been shouting yourself hoarse over the non invitation of these candidates and I've been quietly hoping u'lld realize your folly sooner rather than later but as always, it seems u're never going to get to the point of self caution.
Now which of these names (Ralph Nader , BobBarr, or Cynthia McKinney) are familiar to u? Probably all i guess, but how many of them did u see standing one on one with Obama and John McCain in a debate? Were they not presidential candidates also? If McCain had decided to stay away from the debate would you expect Obama to be debating with a political non entity like Ralph Nader just cos the American people want a debate? There are lots of unbelieveably ignorant people like u out there even in the US but they channel their objections through the right channels by calling for changes in the system that wld grant an equal footing to all candidates in presidential debates. until that is achieved, it is up to the Debate organizers to use their discretion in deciding who makes the cut and at the moment, Okotie and the others do not so if you want to see them in a debate u can do what was done here eason.com/blog/2008/09/26/watch- bob - barr - debate -the-pres or just spare us another display of your ignorance.

proudly9ja:

You should understand that the US Presidential debates is organised by the Commission of Presidential Debates (CPD) run by the two main political parties i.e. Republicans and Democrats. Based on this, it isn't a surprise that it is mainly reps of these two parties who take part in the debates.

wesley80:

So does that make the Debate a joke? were the other candidates excluded cos they might floor the Democratic and Republican candidates?

proudly9ja:

You should understand that the US Presidential debates is organised by the Commission of Presidential Debates (CPD) run by the two main political parties i.e. Republicans and Democrats. Based on this, it isn't a surprise that it is mainly reps of these two parties who take part in the debates.

You should also know that inspite of this, there is wide spread critism by the American public on why at least a third party and/or the independent candidate is not invited to the debate.

So there is a difference between the American and Nigerian situation. The Nigerian situation has tried to let us believe that they are non partisan (jury still out on this) and they have laid a premise that if your party has at least a candidate for the house of reps, you would be invited to the debate. If some parties have fulfilled this condition, why exclude them?

gokex:

the guy no get job why he dey stress himself over presidential debate?

Mai Suya:

why did they invite the candidates in the first place? The sudden U-turn by the organizers is what makes it suspicious

fxskye:

PDP in action. NEDG should be prosecuted for incompetence. Y on earth would officers send out an invitation and only to "ban" or "disqualify" invitee last minute to event?

So, if NEDG is a recruiting firm, it would invite many candidates 4 a test/interview and barre them at the point of entring test hall/interview place.
I can understand more d reasons for the other 3 aspirant to boycott the "stage-manage" debate.

scorpion1:

my pellow country feful, flease what time is za devate?

Chris Okotie will floor GEJ any day. . . hence his exclusion. They probably don't want anyone to make the president look incompetent.