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Live Updates From The NEDG, BON Vice-Presidential Debate
The Vice Presidential debates put together by Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) is about to get underway.
An independently administered multi-stage process led to the selection of five political parties partaking in tonight’s Vice Presidential debate.
Read about how the five parties were selected here.
Expected to be on the podium are the running mates for the Presidential candidates of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), the Alliance For New Nigeria (ANN), All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Young Progressives Party (YPP).
The debate is expected to be intriguing as the VP candidates explain their plans and battle to outdo each other in answering critical questions about the state of the nation and its future.
Channelstv.com is on the ground at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja where the debate is taking place.
Stay with us for updates:
7:00pm The moderator, Imoni Amarere, welcomes the five vice presidential candidates participating in the debate and others. He assures Nigerians that none of the candidate has seen the questions to be asked.
Amarere, thereafter, introduces the candidates participating in the debate.
ACPN Vice Presidential Candidate, Ganiyu Galadima, gives his remarks. He says there is a need to fix the economy
He says between 2015 and now, Nigeria has recorded little or no improvement in governance. He also blames unemployment rate which he says is “becoming higher” on the “wrong policy” of the government.
ANN Vice Presidential Candidate Khadijah Abdullahi-Iya introduces herself. She says she is a nation builder, lawyer, and social entrepreneur.
She says she is passionate about women and the plight of children and believes that everybody should all be concerned about the plight of children in the country.
As a wife and a mother of seven, she says he is committed to ensuring that Nigerians gets the opportunity they deserve in their pursuit of happiness.
APC Vice Presidential Candidate, Yemi Osinbajo introduces himself. He says the Federal Government has begun some of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of the nation.
He adds that they are producing 90% of the rice that the nation consumes and Nigeria is importing only 2% of what it used to import.
PDP Vice Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, is speaking. He says Nigeria has become the country with the highest number of poor people in the world. He adds that the nation has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world while unemployment rate has risen significantly.
As long as we don’t create jobs and have the number of unemployed youths in their productive age that we have today, we are going to have crisis,” says Obi.
YPP Vice Presidential Candidate, Umma Getso, introduces herself. She says she has a passion for the girl child education and has spent the early years of her adulthood in the development of a common Nigeria.
She says she has been to the lowest level of Nigeria’s standard of living and knows how Nigerians are suffering. Getso adds that her party believes so much in a new Nigeria, where every Nigerian will have equal rights and a story to tell in the near future.
