The presidential candidate of the Accord Party, Isaac Ositelu, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance on Wednesday protested against the decision of the Nigeria Election Debate Group and the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria to select candidates of only five political parties for the presidential debate scheduled for January 19, 2019.

The organisations had restricted participants at the debate to the presidential candidates of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, Oby Ezekwesili; Alliance for New Nigeria, Fela Durotoye; All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari; Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; and Young Progressives Party, Kingsley Moghalu.

But Ositelu, in a statement made available to journalists, said all candidates taking part in the presidential election ought to have been given opportunity of taking part in the debate.

He said by denying other candidates the opportunity of presenting their manifestoes to Nigerians, the NEDG and BON have unwittingly denied other candidates opportunity to compete fairly for votes in the election.

Ositelu said he ought to have been accorded recognition in the debate given that Accord Party, with over 11 years of participation in the electoral processes in Nigeria, had membership bases across the 36 states and Abuja.

He said, “Accord Party has previously produced members of the National and state Houses of Assembly. If such success tractions were the consideration for rating, the Accord Party deserved better recognition by the NEDG and BON.

“Accord Party is one of the very few parties that could boast of nominating candidates for states and national elections in the 2019 general elections.”

Ositelu called on the organisers of the debate to correct the bias against the interest of Accord Party and its candidate.

He said the right to debate in the electoral process should be an inalienable privilege for all the candidates.

“Anything to the contrary would present NEDG and BON as having established prejudices against the likes of Accord Party and will call to question the integrity of the debate organisers,” he added.



Also, APGA in a letter addressed to the two organisations dated December 18 and signed by the national chairman, Victor Oye, appealed to them to include its presidential candidate, John Gbor, in the debate.

Oye said there was no justification in the exception of the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates in the debates, saying APGA is the third largest party in the country.

The letter read, “I write to complain about the exclusion of our presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the ongoing debates being organised by your organisations, the Nigeria Election Debate Group and Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria.

“It is an established fact at present that our party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, is the third largest political party in Nigeria. Therefore, it should have been part of the debates no matter whatever procedure or yardstick your organisations may have used to draw up political parties and their candidates included in the debates.

“So, APGA ought to have been among the ones chosen, so far as the number of parties to be involved in the debates are beyond two.”

https://all-gists..com/2018/12/accord-party-apga-presidential-candidates-protest-exclusion-from-debate.html

Spoilers Club

There are only 2 relevant parties in Nigeria, APC and PDP, both have at one time or another disappointed Nigerians.

No other political party has the platform to win a Presidential election, let's not deceive ourselves.

Earlier this year, there were talks of a third force and the likes of Ezekwesili, Olawepo, Sowore etc attempted to form a pact, but because of their selfish desires, the pact never saw the light of day. If among the learned and internationally exposed, you can't compromise your stance to win something, how can you now cope with ruling one of the most diverse nation on earth - diversity in religion, ethnicity, exposure, literacy and general reasoning?

Only APC and PDP are relevant because in lots of rural communities in the North, South, East and West, they haven't heard of any other political party but these.

If the others can be less selfish and form a third force coalition, they stand a chance.

Abeg may dem allow all of them join Atiku to debate.

Baba Buhari will watch them from Aso Rock while sipping chilled kunu.

Even in the US (Champions of Democracy), it's not every political party that is allowed to participate in a debate.. Its not INEC meeting for God's sake

Anyhow them do, Nigeria belongs to only two political parties, and we know them.

Atleast Sewore should be included.

Even if you are the only one in the debate, you will not win the election

Let's have all these parties that are excluded from debate and listen to their noble ideas.This will make the debate more robust.

ONLY FOOL VOTE ATIKY OR BUHARI. THIS PEOPLE ARE ONCE A LEADER THAT LAND US TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY.

SAY NO TO PDP/APC

godfatherx:
Spoilers Club

There are only 2 relevant parties in Nigeria, APC and PDP, both have at one time or another disappointed Nigerians.

No other political party has the platform to win a Presidential election, let's not deceive ourselves.

Earlier this year, there were talks of a third force and the likes of Ezekwesili, Olawepo, Sowore etc attempted to form a pact, but because of their selfish desires, the pact never saw the light of day. If among the learned and internationally exposed, you can't compromise your stance to win something, how can you now cope with ruling one of the most diverse nation on earth - diversity in religion, ethnicity, exposure, literacy and general reasoning?

Only APC and PDP are relevant because in lots of rural communities in the North, South, East and West, they haven't heard of any other political party but these.

If the others can be less selfish and form a third force coalition, they stand a chance.

It is this your type of reasoning that make the rich to remain richer. They can be dishonest and unjust, just pack money and bribe their way to freedom. Then thesame you will follow jungle justice crowd and burn a man alive for stealing N50.
Enough of this one sided justice. Nobody is above the law. All parties should go for the debate. Nigeria belongs to both the old and the young. You cannot be a passenger in Nigeria. It is your country.

globemoney bruv,so apga will win the presidential election in anambra yet they were considered very insignificant to participate in the debate.chai!! i laff in sudan It's to early for apga to start crying nah,postpone it till next year.it will be much necessary then with enough geepee tanks available

VOTE OMOYELE SOWORE (AAC) FOR PRESIDENT 2019







OMOYELE SOWORE

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What is apga debating


Mtcheew.

uuzba:

It is this your type of reasoning that make the rich to remain richer. They can be dishonest and unjust, just pack money and bribe their way to freedom. Then thesame you will follow jungle justice crowd and burn a man alive for stealing N50.
Enough of this one sided justice. Nobody is above the law. All parties should go for the debate. Nigeria belongs to both the old and the young. You cannot be a passenger in Nigeria. It is your country.

How many do you see debate in the US? How many political parties exist there?

91 of you want to go there and debate?

Na wa oooo

uuzba:

It is this your type of reasoning that make the rich to remain richer. They can be dishonest and unjust, just pack money and bribe their way to freedom. Then thesame you will follow jungle justice crowd and burn a man alive for stealing N50.
Enough of this one sided justice. Nobody is above the law. All parties should go for the debate. Nigeria belongs to both the old and the young. You cannot be a passenger in Nigeria. It is your country.

He is making a lot of sense than you

godfatherx:

How many do you see debate in the US? How many political parties exist there?

I heard about extra 2 parties in the last US election

uuzba:

It is this your type of reasoning that make the rich to remain richer. They can be dishonest and unjust, just pack money and bribe their way to freedom. Then thesame you will follow jungle justice crowd and burn a man alive for stealing N50.
Enough of this one sided justice. Nobody is above the law. All parties should go for the debate. Nigeria belongs to both the old and the young. You cannot be a passenger in Nigeria. It is your country.

all parties should go for the debate? Do you even know how many political parties we have? Where you wan keep them? Forget reasoning or not, he made a lot of sense... They themselves are even selfish before even elections..they need to form a third force and they can't do that jf they can't join hands... No unity and that's why PDP and APC will keep ruling us

peter1994:
Even in the US (Champions of Democracy), it's not every political party that is allowed to participate in a debate.. Its not INEC meeting for God's sake

I hate when ill-informed Nigerians join head with imaginary thought as a factual statement. Yes, I guess not every political party is called to presidential debate but more than one candidate from a particular party is invited to partake in the debate. If Nigeria is not enable to call more than one candidate from a party to join the presidential debate, it must certainly call every presidential candidate of parties other than PDP and APC.