PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31/12/2018

“THE CANDIDATES”
A PRESIDENTIAL TOWNHALL SERIES

As 91 political parties and their respective Presidential candidates vie to lead Nigeria’s next administration in the 2019 Election, ‘The Candidates’ a presidential town hall co-production between Daria Media and NTA, supported by the MacArthur Foundation, launches on the 9th of January, 2019.

The Candidates, is a four-part, two-hour live televised town hall meeting series, of the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates for the four leading political parties. These parties were selected from the results of multiple polls aggregated by the Centre for Democracy and Development.

The Candidates’ Presidential town hall will take place as follows:

Kingsley Moghalu and running mate, Umma Getso of the Young Progressive
Party – 9th January, 2019

Muhammadu Buhari and running mate, Yemi Osinbajo, All Progressives Congress Party –16th January, 2019

Omoyele Sowore and running mate, Rabiu Ahmed Rufai, of the African Action Congress Party -23rd January, 2019

Atiku Abubakar and running mate, Peter Obi of the Peoples Democratic Party – 30thJanuary, 2019

Kadaria Ahmed, arguably Nigeria’s foremost broadcaster and journalist will moderate each town hall.

The late John McCain was once quoted as saying, “The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility”.

The Candidates will provide a unique platform for direct interaction between the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates of the leading political parties in Nigeria and citizens.

There will be an audience of 100 people for each town hall, including CSOs and the Diplomatic Corps, as well as citizens (who have applied online via daria.media) selected via an impartial and fair application process; other participants will join the conversation via social media and phone calls. It will be an opportunity for Nigerians to hear directly from the aspirants and to ask them questions on governance and nation building.

The Candidates, will be broadcast across Nigeria on all platforms: live on NTA, and on all Radio Nigeria stations, other partner TV stations, as well as streamed online at www.dtv.media to enable Nigerians in the diaspora and those not near television screens to participate.

For more information, go to @TheDariaMedia on Twitter and Facebook, @dariamediang on Instagram

For further details regarding attendance, please register at www.daria.media or contact Etita Okponam (etita@daria.media 0809 0500735) and Bimbola Amao (bimbola@daria.media 08060997556

Dottore:
Why didn't Sowore participate in the presidential debate

naptu2:



The producers of these shows have to prune down the number of candidates that can appear on their shows. There are quite a lot of candidates and not all of them can appear.

Therefore, the producers of these shows set up online polls and got viewers to vote for the top 4 or 5 candidates that they would like to see.

Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Oby Ezekwesili, Kingsley Moghalu and Fela Durotoye were the top 5 for the debate (Sowore sued the debate organisers because they excluded him).


Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Omoyele Sowore, and Kingsley Moghalu were the top 4 for "The Candidates" (no Oby Ezekwesili or Fela Durotoye).

There were many other candidates that were excluded completely, e.g. Jerry Gana and Olawepo Hashim.

I think that the NTA's "Good Morning Nigeria" show is the only show that is featuring all the candidates. They have been featuring presidential candidates on their show since November (Donald Duke, Jerry Gana and Omoyele Sowore are some of the candidates that have appeared on the show. I have never heard of some of the candidates that appeared on the show before they were featured).

FreeGlobe:
When are they bringing up the APGA candidate instead of all these fringe unknown parties and candidates. The AOPGA candidate is strong in SE and NC

diablos:
The dull one failed in his 2011 debate and same thing happened to him in his own organized candidates town hall meeting. Really pathetic.

naptu2:



The producers of these shows have to prune down the number of candidates that can appear on their shows. There are quite a lot of candidates and not all of them can appear.

Therefore, the producers of these shows set up online polls and got viewers to vote for the top 4 or 5 candidates that they would like to see.

Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Oby Ezekwesili, Kingsley Moghalu and Fela Durotoye were the top 5 for the debate (Sowore sued the debate organisers because they excluded him).


Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Omoyele Sowore, and Kingsley Moghalu were the top 4 for "The Candidates" (no Oby Ezekwesili or Fela Durotoye).

There were many other candidates that were excluded completely, e.g. Jerry Gana and Olawepo Hashim.

I think that the NTA's "Good Morning Nigeria" show is the only show that is featuring all the candidates. They have been featuring presidential candidates on their show since November (Donald Duke, Jerry Gana, Omoyele Sowore and Alistair Soyede are some of the candidates that have appeared on the show. I have never heard of some of the candidates that appeared on the show before they were featured).

Alexis11:



Forget all these stories, they have personal issues with Sowore.

naptu2:


Ok, all knowing one.