Buhari, Osinbajo to participate in live TV town hall programme

- President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Yemi Osinbajo, would appear on a live TV town hall programme today, Wednesday, January 16

- This was made known by Fetus Keyamo, the director, strategic communications of APC presidential campaign council

- The programme would enable Buhari and Osinbajo to take questions from the moderator, Kadaria Ahmed, and from the general public through various platforms

President Muhammad Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will participate in a live televised presidential town hall interactive programme today, Wednesday, January 16, at 8:00pm.

Legit.ng reports that that this was contained in a statement signed by Festus Keyamo, director, strategic communications, APC presidential campaign council on Tuesday, January 15.

The release said that the venue would be the Ladi Kwali conference center, Ballroom of Sheraton Hotel, Abuja and that the attendance is strictly by invitation.

The statement read: “All guests are expected to be seated by 7:00pm. The presidential series, which is titled, “The Candidates”, is designed by the organisers to have both the presidential and their vice presidential candidates of selected political parties on stage at the same time and at different dates to take questions from the moderator, Kadaria Ahmed, and from the general public through various platforms.

“The programme would be broadcast live on NTA, which shall in turn provide the live feeds to other partner stations like TVC, Wazobia TV, Oak TV and on all Radio Nigeria stations. It will also be streamed on-line at dtv.media to enable Nigerians in diaspora to participate.

“Nigerians are encouraged to kindly tune in to participate."

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that the candidates who participated in the debate included Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Jimi Agbaje of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Owolabi Salis of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), and Babatunde Gbadamosi of the Action Democratic Party (ADP).

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