₦airaland Forum

IfnobeGod20:
Mr. Man, you're wrong here, debate is one of the veritable channel to know the capacity, capability and competence of each candidate vying for a certain position. No developed country joke with subjecting their candidates to rigorous debates of all kinds.
I don't see reason why a candidate will be running away from debate in this our jet age. If you are capable and cerebral, even if the debate is conducted among your ache enemies, you won't be afraid to go there and showcase what you are made up. The last I checked, in debate all aspirants are asked same questions at a time and they are given right to react to anything said about any party's candidate.
Thankfully, Prof. Pat Utomi never even mentioned Tinubu it is you guys that guilty conscience pricking. Or you guys have made up your mind that it is only Tinubu out of the 18 presidential candidates that won't like to go for debate.
The attitude of you guys is liken to the biblical words that says, a dinner runs when no one pursues him.
Yes, what he said is not constitutional but he finally said in his final submission that they can be voted out with anyone refused to attend debate.
Please stop this guilty conscience, he never made mentioned Tinubu's name.

You also said here that what he said is not constitutional. Since u know it’s not constitutional, why are u now wailing? Don’t u think it’s illiteracy on ur part to know that something is not constitutional and u are still pushing the narrative. You guys get ur advice from mad men truly.

A fool at your age can't be a wise man again!

What makes you a fool is not just
your rejection of what great nations did to be great but having the guts to attack a man who runs the premier business school in West Africa while you are just a bigoted urchin working for a former drug baron.

While the source of Peter Obi's wealth is legal, that of your father in thief Tinubu is a mixture of drugs and state backed extortion

As if it's not enough, your bloody Principal has the animal boldness to push Muslim-Muslim ticket in a country where Christians are being marginalised openly and being slaughtered all over the north.

Even Buhari who is a rabid bigot and who wanted to pretend otherwise refused to allow Tinubu push Muslim-Muslim ticket in his time.

Tinubu has lost 90% of the Christians who voted for Buhari in 2015 and his plan to rig won't work this time because people will chill by the polling unit till election is over.

Your breakfast will be served in Feb

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

1. Debates and town halls are private events, not government or INEC-sanctioned events.

2. There's nothing in the constitution or INEC ACT that says candidates must attend any debate or function.

3. Freedom of choice and association is a constitutionally guaranteed right in our constitution so you can not force your choice of association on any candidate.

4 How exactly do you compel candidates to attend private and non-government-sanctioned events? Based on what law, what part of the constitution or INEC act?


This is when ignorant, unintelligent and grossly illiterate people parade around as educated people when in fact they are not.

This uneducated albino clown needs to lay off drugs.

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

You're a disgusting human being.

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

it was this statement that led us where we are Wen buhari dodge debate. We realize he doesn't have a single IDEALOGY. Pls I beg you don't contribute to Nigeria current woes save the future of Nigeria & your children.

Thiefnubbu and his urchins upon hearing this …

Urheadmaster:


Urchins will avoid this particular post like a plague
They already know Pat Utomi is referring to urchins presidential candidate and the other one in PDP

Pat Utomi is high on Sapele water.

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

you are a failure

Gbam

oluwafeolami:
It is only necessary not mandatory. Stop straining ur muscle on a baseless issue.

To discerning minds it is not baseless but needful while to reprobate minds, it is needless.
A country will always get the leader they deserves with your kind mind.

So true

oluwafeolami:
You also said here that what he said is not constitutional. Since u know it’s not constitutional, why are u now wailing? Don’t u think it’s illiteracy on ur part to know that something is not constitutional and u are still pushing the narrative. You guys get ur advice from mad men truly.

The question is, is it morally and ethically right for citizens to organize a debate for those that wish to lead them and some refused to show up?
This is the reason we've not got it right in this country because those that wished to lead us always come through the back doors and we take take hook line and sinker.
Meanwhile, the campaigns they selectively attended before were they also constitutional. Because the last time I checked, many of them have appeared before on many debate at different times and they never complained that it is not constitutional.

IfnobeGod20:
I was expecting you to mention one person in the past that never joined in presidential election but you're here telling us future tense of someone that promised not to attend. I bet you, if he doesn't attend, he has failed already. You think US is Nigeria that don't grill their candidates and start hiding them like the way we do in Nigeria.
In the first place, why would a candidate be running away from debates, if he truly knows his worth? I don't expect any candidate to run away from any debate, even if they are doing it inside his enemies bedroom. Your capacity and competence will always makes the difference. Those without capacity and competence are the ones running away from debate.

Nigerian media are corrupt and biased. That's why it is smart for politician's to refuse to attend their corrupt debates. Even Obituary learnt the hard way and he is now joined Tinubu.

HOW?

buckeyemedia:
Pat Utomi is now a desperate certified idiot.

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

You're shameless, absolutely shameless!

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

What makes Tinubu? Do you understand when they say someone is smart . Have you heard o Elon , Steve Jobs or Mark zucks . Or it is this una small Nigerian settings that he is Smart.

An accused person has the right to remain silent.

A candidate has the right to refuse to campaign, and/or to be quiet.

Arrant nonsense!!! Debate is not part of constitutional mandate for any election.

Very true.
You will see people debate on the streets in America before going to national television for the main thing. In Nigeria we see it as rubbish. It show the high level of illiteracy in Nigeria. Its horrible.

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

That heroine Asiwaju is selling would be bought by your kids

You cannot set your own rules. Every party has its mode of operation. If attending public debate is optional in the INEC rules, so shall it be. Even the person coordinating the public debate belongs to a political party. So public debate is not the necessary or sufficient condition for good governance

For a professor to bring up this shows something. Which law states that candidates must attend debate. A prof should not be behaving like a dunce.

Prof. you are too learned to say this, you fall my hand.

Even you know say any candidate wey ignore debates dey risk em chances so why threaten dem?

You are the one who is high on something cheap, maybe the drugs supplied to you by Tinubu your drug Lord is affecting your thinking focuty,your master can't debate because he his unfit and can't speak without a written statement, he have to read everything on paper that his aids have prepared for him which can't happen in a debate, people like you also said Buhari was smart for not attending debates saying he his to big for it, he have taken us 20 years back samething your drug Lord his about doing

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

But he didn't mention anyone, why assume BAT? Lmao...

jagtinic:
For a professor to bring up this shows something. Which law states that candidates must attend debate. A prof should not be behaving like a dunce.

He's a professor?

Hard to reconcile a professor spewing ignorant and unintelligent rubbish like a village illiterate.

ddeola:
Prof. you are too learned to say this, you fall my hand.

Even you know say any candidate wey ignore debates dey risk em chances so why threaten dem?

He is not "learned" overall. Book knowledge, if not matched with emotional, intuitive and leadership intelligence, will get you nowhere in politics.

That's why Utomi is a big failure despite his education which suggests he should be a prominent leader.

This statement from Utomi defies logic. His talk about a Country outside Africa, as Obi too is always doing, makes it even more dumb because it shows a limited thinker who does not understand that to change a situation, you must first accept the reality of that situation and work with it.

You've already failed if you wish to make Adamawa Singapore. You work incrementally to garner sensible progress you build on. Attempt to make Adamawa like Awka Ibom first before talking like a delusional dreamer.

I don't respect Utomi at all.

JoeNL22:
Very true.
You will see people debate on the streets in America before going to national television for the main thing. In Nigeria we see it as rubbish. It show the high level of illiteracy in Nigeria. Its horrible.

Debate is nothing in Nigeria right now. That is our reality. With the high level of leadership insincerity in Nigeria, probably worst in the world, is it not best for a pragmatically intelligent thinker to use the record and achievements of a politician rather than rely on what they say?

The likes of Obi are always making love to every microphone they see because they are empty barrels with nothing to point at as achievements in office.

The way so-called educated Nigerians talk is what scares me the most per solutions provisions for Nigerians because they don't have education that teaches thrm to be practical, innovative and realistically efficient in aid of solutions provision for society.

Of what use is debate in a Country full of illiterates like Nigeria? What is the percentage of the population who will listen to debate, appreciate it and be swayed by it? Like 10% or less?

Are we not better off recognizing our reality for now and simply voting leaders with a history of solutions-provision who can then improve the human development index of every Nigerian, as Awolowo did, so we may have increased the 10% figure above to like 30% in 20 years and maybe 50 - 60% in 50 years?

For smart folks, it is never about being at zero to then think you can land at ten bypassing 1-9.

The debate thing is nothing but mischief against Asiwaju because other candidates know they do not scratch the sole of his shoes if it comes to achievements and transformational leadership.They have no record to parade so they wish to sell lies and insincere promises

That is what Nigerians will be looking. Not silly talk shows where Obi will rant about China and Japan, quoting fake statistics, while Atiku who lives in Dubai will tell us only he aklnc can "unify".

Thiefnubbu and his useless and brainless urchins upon learning about the documentary…

lhordspy:
With all due respect in the world, i think Prof. Pat Utomi is high on some cheap drugs.

Just look at him making references to South-Korea political settings just like a clueless Peter Obi will always do when trying to dodge and maneuver his way cunningly when been faced with discussions far above his intellectual capacity.

Firstly, the main aim of political debate is to educate, and elucidiate your plans for a greater country and stress more on why people should vote for you.

But in Nigeria here where we have a very silly journalist and supposedly debate organisers or interview host conniving with opposition parties to plan your downfall. Throwing cheap subs in a very obvious manner at a specific candidate.

A very smart man like Asiwaju Tinubu will rather spend his time making political moves, strategising, meeting the main voters and discussing his plans with them RATHER than honouring a mediocre comedy show of a debate which was poorly coordinated, where 80% of the viewers will be the same people sitting at the front of their TV on Election day and on their phones gossiping away about the election rather than going out to vote.

Elections are not won by jumping on every interview or debate to seek public validations but by meeting the real voters directly through town hall meetings and engagements, telling them your plans face-to-face.

If your candidate does not have anything to hide or has a clean record or a very good history, he should not avoid any form of debates. Debates are meant to make us know if this candidate has the interest of country at heart and also if this person has a good past history to be fit for such position. It is not a case of talking about your plans but revealing your kind of person to us.

I totally agree with Prof

These our so-called presidential candidates are not just serious at all at all