Buhari, Atiku’s Absence At Debate Contempt Of Nigerians ― Olawepo-Hashim

Challenges APC, PDP to debate, praises Obby, Durotoye and Moghalu for good performance

Presidential candidate of the People’s Trust (PT), Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, on Sunday said that the failure of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to appear at a presidential debate in Abuja on Saturday amounted to contempt of the electorate.

Olawepo-Hashim, who also challenged the two parties to a fresh debate said that the NEDG.BON must immediately set up a new debate featuring his party and the two big parties.

He said: “Nigerian electorate deserve to scrutinise the candidates and programmes of the two behemoths that have come to be known as the two evils of Nigerian politics. Their absence under whatever excuse(s) shows their contempt for the electorate.”

Olawepo-Hashim, whose party is also known as the Third Force, and who had earlier protested his exclusion from the debate said that he was volunteering to enter into a debate with the APC and PDP candidates at any location of their choice.

He also praised the candidates of the three candidates who appeared at the debate, declaring that they gave good accounts of themselves.

According to Mr Hashim, “Nigerian electorate deserve to scrutinise the candidates and programmes of the two behemoths that have come to be known as the “two evils of Nigerian politics. Their absence under whatever excuse(s) shows their contempt for the electorate.

The PT presidential candidate, however, congratulated the candidates of the ACPN, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili; YPP, Mr Kinsley Moghalu and ANN, Mr Fela Durotoye for “their brilliant performance at the debate.”



“The three candidates advertised to the world, a teaser of what stuff new generation of political leaders are made of,” he said.

Mr Olawepo-Hashim called on the NEDG/BON to immediately organise another debate to include People’s Trust, the biggest of the newly registered political parties that had been unfairly excluded.

“We have complained about this in the past, a new debate will be a good way to cure the debate platform of that error. There is no problem in making a mistake by excluding us, but it will be dishonourable not to seize a good opportunity to correct your error.”

The PT presidential candidate further called on the organisers to also include promising candidates like Omoyele Sowore and others who may be interested in the next round of the debate.

According to him, it is fundamental not to allow the APC and PDP escape public scrutiny which a debate symbolises.

Olawepo-Hashim added that it will not even matter if the APC is represented at the proposed debate by another person other than the President Buhari, whom he said may be afraid of public scrutiny due to his obvious display of lack of presence of mind in recent public outings.

“We are persuaded now that we can excuse Mr Buhari; all we want is to scrutinise APC’s record at a proper presidential debate. Nigerians have a right to that debate,” Olawepo-Hashim said.

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Buhari was never going to show up after showing the world how empty he is upstairs during that disgrace of a performance on an interview set where he wasn't debating against anyone

Now imagine what would have happened had he showed up for a proper debate pit against sound minds like Moghalu and Durotoye. Oshiomole and the rest would have had heart attacks on the spot watching their saviour mess himself up in public for the umpteenth time.

Atiku was well and ready but I believe he did the right thing by not coming up given Buhari retreated into hiding like the coward he is. The world wanted to watch Atiku vs Buhari, Atiku debating against these mushroom parties would have made him a lesser man, believe me. A wise Man knows when to fight and when to take a back seat.

Sai AtikuObi 2019

Sai ObiSowore 2023

Is quiet unfortunate which way nigeria

Ok

Shame to dem APC Zombies
Atiku we know, Atiku we shall vote
WE stand with restoration
WE stand with economical revitalisation
WE stand with restructuring
WE stand with respect for rule of law
WE stand with true democracy
WE stand with true patriotism
WE stand with Wazirin Atiku Abubakar
WE stand with PDP!!

BUHARI IS A DISASTER 1.He made Nigeria the poverty capital of the world*
2.He brought recession
3.While Obasanjo removed Nigeria from debt, he plunged Nigeria back into debt
4.The Nigerian president who on national TV said he would not obey court orders
5.The most tribalistic Nigerian president ever*
6.He uses state apparatus to protect his friends while punishing and prosecuting his enemies
7.He pretends to be poor while his family lives in luxury*
8.He spent almost his entire tenure blaming past governments except himself
9.He has no knowledge of economics*
10.He admitted he has no knowledge of how to make money*
11.Over eleven million Jobs lost under his watch*
12.Herdsmen killing rose under his watch
13.He could not start and complete even a single project throughout his tenure
14.He told lies about his educational qualification*
15.He said he was only going to run for a single tenure
16.His party introduced vote buying into Nigerian political lexicon
17.He used police to threaten voters and intimidate them to secure electoral victories.
18.He rules with an "I don't care' attitude*
19.He only grants interview to foreign journalists.
20.He insults and de-markets the country when he travels abroad*
21.He built no single hospital
22.He enjoys foreign health facilities while his people die in dilapidated hospitals
23.He failed to disclose his ailment as it's done in transparent governments all over the world

BUHARI and ATIKU believe they're the only options available in the presidential election contest. Unfortunately, that's what it seems. May the best candidate emerge victor.

Sane , honest and hardworking Nigerians, kindly read and digest.
Let them keep wailing while we keep shutting their mouth with facts and project accomplishments of our darling President as he takes us to the NEXT LEVEL.

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: WHEN DID THE PDP START LOVING AND RESPECTING DEBATES?

1. For the 1999 presidential election, General Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP refused to debate with Chief Olu Falae of the APP/AD coalition - Obasanjo won the election!
2. For the 2003 presidential election, President Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP refused to debate with General Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP - Obasanjo won the election!
3. For the 2007 presidential election, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of the PDP refused to debate with General Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP - Yar'Adua won the election!
4. For the 2011 presidential election, President Goodluck Ebele Nnamdi Azikiwe Jonathan of the PDP refused to debate with General Muhammadu Buhari of the CPC - Goodluck Jonathan won the election!
5. For the 2015 presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari of the APC refused to debate with President Goodluck Ebele Nnamdi Azikiwe Jonathan of the PDP after it emerged that the organizers of the debate have carefully leaked all the debate questions to President Jonathan - General Buhari won the election!
So, with the current madness of the PDP and their poorly educated minions shouting about a debate, and even posting on their unedifying social media pages that Buhari MUST debate or resign, one is compelled to ask that at what time or at what point in our country's political history did the PDP start loving debates? Or are they merely exhibiting their common attributes of short memories and outright moronism?
By the way, what is even a debate? The fact that the PDP left 27 states broke to the point that they owed workers' salaries for upwards of 14 months despite selling crude oil at $142 per barrel and Buhari came and bailed them out with oil selling at $27 per barrel has made the PDP lose whatever debate they want!
How about the pensions and gratuities of workers of the Nigerian Airways, Nigerian Railways Corporation, NITEL, M-TEL, NEPA and other public outfits which the PDP killed and refused to pay during their 16 years of ruinous rule but which Buhari is now settling in spite of not earning even half of what PDP earned in revenues? Hasn't this won the debate and election for President Buhari already? In all honesty, can the PDP have answers for such questions in any debate?[/b]
And can the PDP even answer debate questions on why it took the coming of Buhari as President for the roads they neglected to begin to be rebuilt? If the debate moderator asks Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to say something to President Buhari on the road Buhari is building to Jada, Atiku's village, what will he say? Will he thank Buhari or will he say ''the PDP initiated the road and forgot to implement it''? And can Atiku Abubakar explain in any debate what the PDP did with the $16 billion they purportedly spent on giving Nigerians electricity between 1999 and 2007 alone but which only megawatts of darkness was given to Nigerians?
In just 3 years out of PDP's 16 years ruinous rule, the PDP under the presidency of Goodluck Ebele Nnamdi Azikiwe Jonathan purportedly spent about 700 billion naira on their so called SURE-P Programme, which is almost the annual budgets of about 10 states in Nigeria, but no one has seen the fruit or results of this monumental ''investment'' in our economy - no industries were built by any of ''the beneficiaries'' and neither has it translated into the diversification of the country's economy through agriculture and other production sectors, just as it has not resulted in the revamping of the textile factories and other industries that were alive and productive when the PDP took over from the military. In the end, PDP's unexplained use of such humongous sums of our country's finances over time resulted in Nigeria now becoming the poverty capital of the world!
How can anyone or any country spend such humongous sums on social investment, and yet the country ends up being the world's poverty capital? Where are the beneficiaries and who are they? What did they do with with such large sums that they received from the federal government? Even if they drank beer or smoked weed with the monies, shouldn't it have still boosted the country's economy? Now, can the PDP or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar answer such queries at any debate?
Very poignantly, just today, the day of the so called presidential debate, President Buhari commissioned a water port at Baro, Niger State, which is the first of its kind in northern Nigeria, a successful programme that will ease the movement of heavy industrial goods and equipment to the northern part of the country through ships, which then boosts the local economy of the north and hence that of Nigeria in general.
Why did the PDP fail to do this noble project throughout their 16 years of ruinous rule? Equally important is, while the PDP is polluting Nigeria's healthy airspace with hypocritical noises about a debate, work on the Second Niger Bridge in Southeastern Nigeria is in full progress under the leadership of President Buhari. Wasn't this the very same project that the PDP converted to a mere campaign promise for the Igbo?
So many questions over the 16 wasted years of the PDP at any debate but serious Nigerians are more focused on fixing and clearing the pungent rot they created and left behind than wasting more precious time in debating a horde of thieves and gangsters on live TV!
President Buhari's superlative performance in just three years has defeated PDP's 16 years absence at debates and their grossly poor performance for Nigerians!

This is the END OF THE WHOLE MATTER

Spare me that bullshit Mr Hashiem.

All of a sudden you wanna become a president... When you don't have the structures.

Please go to the north and convince those illiterates to vote you.

Buhari has planted you idiots to come split votes in the south

When you know you can't even become a senator in your state, then you wanna become president.

Bear in Mind, any vote that is not for Atiku is a vote for Buhari.

I will be surprised if this man didn't win the presidential elections

Tell them

The debate would have just disgrace Buhari and he will still win the election.


It was useless.

.


Well, point taken but only one person of the two has advanced a reason why he did not attend.

Atiku insisted BEFORE HAND that Buhari should be there. It makes no sense whatsoever to debate contenders and not the actual occupant of the office.

It would only make sense if Buhari was not running for a second term.

The organisers communicated to Atiku's team while they were in the US that the president was going to be present only for them to rush down (barely make a change of clothes) get prepped with mic and all only to be told Buhari won't attend.


Smells fishy to me


"To be clear... we had ALWAYS made it clear to the organisers that our candidate is here to debate Mr. President When we were told in Washington that he would be here, we cut our trip short to come here, he's not here. Our candidate is available at anytime to debate the President at anytime, at short notice, we are ready to do that..." - Bukola Saraki (DG Atiku Campaign)


Explanatory video from the 'horse's' mouth via this twitter link


https://twitter.com/demolarewaju/status/1086934969765822464?s=12


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With the 5000 votes you Sha wan collect, u no go let us hear word!

We have heard you! Move away, abeg!

Let the election just be free and fair,no partiality.



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GoHashim

Atleast if you don't win... Tinubu might consider to work with you...

Lol the boycotted the debate just like how ipob will boycott the election

Buhari is our candidate

OK

Useless guy
Why did you project yourself as a contestant when you knew you won't get any votes ?

It could have been a debate btw Atiku and Buhari but you went in there as a spoiler

272 firms shutdown in one year

88 million Nigerians are living in extreme poverty

7.8 million Nigerians have lost their jobs in 2 years

Youth unemployment stands at 33.4%

ASUU has been on strike for more than 2 months

The person behind these tragedies wants to continue

Good speak Sir.

lolol

That's true

Only idiots, morons and degenerated animalistic fools still believes in Nigeria. Nigeria for God's sake is designed by Britain to fail, it would never work. A fraud, scam, devilish and demonic country. Only animals and the mentally disabled would believe in such a country..Fools!


Biafrans nationwide must boycott the animal country called yorobaic, fulanic zoological republic of Nigeria.

Debate does not affect elections in Nigeria.

Nigerian is an unserious and confused country... Sincerely speaking

post=74972907:
Sane , honest and hardworking Nigerians, kindly read and digest.
Let them keep wailing while we keep shutting their mouth with facts and project accomplishments of our darling President as he takes us to the NEXT LEVEL.

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: WHEN DID THE PDP START LOVING AND RESPECTING DEBATES?

1. For the 1999 presidential election, General Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP refused to debate with Chief Olu Falae of the APP/AD coalition - Obasanjo won the election!
2. For the 2003 presidential election, President Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP refused to debate with General Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP - Obasanjo won the election!
3. For the 2007 presidential election, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of the PDP refused to debate with General Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP - Yar'Adua won the election!
4. For the 2011 presidential election, President Goodluck Ebele Nnamdi Azikiwe Jonathan of the PDP refused to debate with General Muhammadu Buhari of the CPC - Goodluck Jonathan won the election!
[b]5. For the 2015 presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari of the APC refused to debate with President Goodluck Ebele Nnamdi Azikiwe Jonathan of the PDP after it emerged that the organizers of the debate have carefully leaked all the debate questions to President Jonathan - General Buhari won the election!
So, with the current madness of the PDP and their poorly educated minions shouting about a debate, and even posting on their unedifying social media pages that Buhari MUST debate or resign, one is compelled to ask that at what time or at what point in our country's political history did the PDP start loving debates? Or are they merely exhibiting their common attributes of short memories and outright moronism?
By the way, what is even a debate? The fact that the PDP left 27 states broke to the point that they owed workers' salaries for upwards of 14 months despite selling crude oil at $142 per barrel and Buhari came and bailed them out with oil selling at $27 per barrel has made the PDP lose whatever debate they want![/b]
How about the pensions and gratuities of workers of the Nigerian Airways, Nigerian Railways Corporation, NITEL, M-TEL, NEPA and other public outfits which the PDP killed and refused to pay during their 16 years of ruinous rule but which Buhari is now settling in spite of not earning even half of what PDP earned in revenues? Hasn't this won the debate and election for President Buhari already? In all honesty, can the PDP have answers for such questions in any debate?
And can the PDP even answer debate questions on why it took the coming of Buhari as President for the roads they neglected to begin to be rebuilt? If the debate moderator asks Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to say something to President Buhari on the road Buhari is building to Jada, Atiku's village, what will he say? Will he thank Buhari or will he say ''the PDP initiated the road and forgot to implement it''? And can Atiku Abubakar explain in any debate what the PDP did with the $16 billion they purportedly spent on giving Nigerians electricity between 1999 and 2007 alone but which only megawatts of darkness was given to Nigerians?
In just 3 years out of PDP's 16 years ruinous rule, the PDP under the presidency of Goodluck Ebele Nnamdi Azikiwe Jonathan purportedly spent about 700 billion naira on their so called SURE-P Programme, which is almost the annual budgets of about 10 states in Nigeria, but no one has seen the fruit or results of this monumental ''investment'' in our economy - no industries were built by any of ''the beneficiaries'' and neither has it translated into the diversification of the country's economy through agriculture and other production sectors, just as it has not resulted in the revamping of the textile factories and other industries that were alive and productive when the PDP took over from the military. In the end, PDP's unexplained use of such humongous sums of our country's finances over time resulted in Nigeria now becoming the poverty capital of the world!
[b]How can anyone or any country spend such humongous sums on social investment, and yet the country ends up being the world's poverty capital? Where are the beneficiaries and who are they? What did they do with with such large sums that they received from the federal government? Even if they drank beer or smoked weed with the monies, shouldn't it have still boosted the country's economy? Now, can the PDP or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar answer such queries at any debate?
Very poignantly, just today, the day of the so called presidential debate, President Buhari commissioned a water port at Baro, Niger State, which is the first of its kind in northern Nigeria, a successful programme that will ease the movement of heavy industrial goods and equipment to the northern part of the country through ships, which then boosts the local economy of the north and hence that of Nigeria in general. Why did the PDP fail to do this noble project throughout their 16 years of ruinous rule? Equally important is, while the PDP is polluting Nigeria's healthy airspace with hypocritical noises about a debate, work on the Second Niger Bridge in Southeastern Nigeria is in full progress under the leadership of President Buhari. Wasn't this the very same project that the PDP converted to a mere campaign promise for the Igbo?[/b]
So many questions over the 16 wasted years of the PDP at any debate but serious Nigerians are more focused on fixing and clearing the pungent rot they created and left behind than wasting more precious time in debating a horde of thieves and gangsters on live TV!
President Buhari's superlative performance in just three years has defeated PDP's 16 years absence at debates and their grossly poor performance for Nigerians!

This is the END OF THE WHOLE MATTER

You well so? Show us the picture of 2015 election. Your zombie level no be hia.

SaiAtikuTill203:
Shame to dem APC Zombies
Atiku we know, Atiku we shall vote
WE stand with restoration
WE stand with economical revitalisation
WE stand with restructuring
WE stand with respect for rule of law
WE stand with true democracy
WE stand with true patriotism
WE stand with Wazirin Atiku Abubakar
WE stand with PDP!!


BUHARI IS A DISASTER 1.He made Nigeria the poverty capital of the world*
2.He brought recession
3.While Obasanjo removed Nigeria from debt, he plunged Nigeria back into debt
4.The Nigerian president who on national TV said he would not obey court orders
5.The most tribalistic Nigerian president ever*
6.He uses state apparatus to protect his friends while punishing and prosecuting his enemies
7.He pretends to be poor while his family lives in luxury*
8.He spent almost his entire tenure blaming past governments except himself
9.He has no knowledge of economics*
10.He admitted he has no knowledge of how to make money*
11.Over eleven million Jobs lost under his watch*
12.Herdsmen killing rose under his watch
13.He could not start and complete even a single project throughout his tenure
14.He told lies about his educational qualification*
15.He said he was only going to run for a single tenure
16.His party introduced vote buying into Nigerian political lexicon
17.He used police to threaten voters and intimidate them to secure electoral victories.
18.He rules with an "I don't care' attitude*
19.He only grants interview to foreign journalists.
20.He insults and de-markets the country when he travels abroad*
21.He built no single hospital
22.He enjoys foreign health facilities while his people die in dilapidated hospitals
23.He failed to disclose his ailment as it's done in transparent governments all over the world

All these stories because you and your party want to steal? We can contribute money for you and Atiku if your situation is so bad.