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Omoyele Sowore, Presidential Aspirant and Publisher of SaharaReporters, has urged Nigerians to encourage politicians to participate in presidential debates before election.

Speaking on the programme, Politics Today on Wednesday, aired on Channels Television, Sowore restated the need for Nigerians to embrace fresh alternatives, and “say goodbye to poverty, incompetence and the lacklustre kind of leadership that we have had in Nigeria for the last 16 years, plus three years of APC.”

According to him, it is not doing justice to the Nigerian polity to say that “there is no alternative to Buhari in Nigeria”.

His words: “I don’t like when people say on national TV, especially within the mainstream, that there is no alternative to Buhari in Nigeria, when you have people like us who have capacity, character, integrity, stamina, pedigree and energy. We can run marathons while he’s walking 800 metres.

“There are young people in Nigeria, who are presenting themselves with programmes, ideas that are fresh and innovative. I don’t know what is wrong with us; we’re the ones making the point that we don’t want to get out of the bondage that we are in. We are telling you that the alternative is here. We are the alternative. We just set up a party, African Action Congress, and it came out of six months of serious politicking within Nigeria; reaching out to the grassroots, holding meetings in 28 states across Nigeria.

“Young people are here to take Nigeria to the next level. We want to say goodbye to poverty, incompetence and the lacklustre kind of leadership that we have had in Nigeria for the last 16 years, plus three years of APC. We should be talking about fresh ideas that we’re bringing on the table to grow electricity, infrastructure, power, and stop corruption from crippling, not the type of anti-corruption war that the APC is fighting.”

On the need for a presidential debate, he said: “Let’s have that conversation. And if you want to be more serious, maybe we should start bringing these presidential candidates for debate. Buhari should be brought out. Nigerians should force them out of hiding. Let them come and debate the future of Nigeria.

“Young people have come out and presented alternatives, and these alternatives are going to kick out the old [people] in 2019. We’re here to take the country to the next level and that is why I’m contesting for president.”

http://saharareporters.com/2018/08/23/nigerians-should-force-politicians-out-hiding%E2%80%99-%E2%80%94-sowore-challenges-buhari-debate

let's go there ,sowore.I'm rooting for you.Don't just fall out hands like yahaya bello and Dimeji bankole.

Open debate hahahahaha! Even a nursery school pupil can beat Buhari in a debate

hmm. Asking Buhari to a debate is like asking Donald Trump to renounce his America citizenship for that of Nigeria.

Buhari on seeing the upcoming debate

If Buhari makes the mistake of going on that debate, he would only disgrace himself ad Nigeria but he would also be disgracing the whole of Africa.Because that man cannot talk any meaningful thing from his brain. Abeg let's not allow him to disgrace us.Just simply vote him out.The disgrace he has brought upon Nigeria is enough.

LadySarah:
let's go there ,sowore.I'm rooting for you.Don't just fall out hands like yahaya bello and Dimeji bankole.

We need young and vibrant President this time. I don't think he can be like Yahaya Bello. Why Bello is like that is because he has God father which is Buhari.

Arda1000:
Open debate hahahahaha! Even a nursery school pupil can beat Buhari in a debate

lol.. . What will he want to debate? i don't think he has something tangible to orate.

amaniro:
Buhari on seeing the upcoming debate

He will judt die on that day.

Success100:
We need young and vibrant President this time. I don't think he can be like Yahaya Bello. Why Bello is like that is because he has God father which is Buhari.

Where is his media team.I want to join them if I'm rest assured I'll get govt hob(federal MiB of env).I have a blueprint on how Nigeria will improve their environment s quality and also sustain it.