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Buhari won't attend presidential debate with political dwarfs - Sagay

- Chairman of PACAC, Itse Sagay, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari would not attend any presidential debate

- The presidential debate is holding today, Saturday, January 19, in Abuja ahead of the forthcoming general elections

- Sagay noted that Buhari has nothing to gain by attending debate with motivational speakers

The chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has nothing to gain from attending the presidential debate holding in Abuja today, Saturday, January 19.

Legit.ng gathered that the constitutional lawyer described the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and other presidential candidates as "motivational speakers."

In an interview with The Sun newspaper, Sagay said there is no law binding candidates to participate in a debate.

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He said: “There is no law that is binding about participating in a debate. It is ideal for everybody to appear for the debate, but if you have nothing to lose by not debating, you may decide not to do so. It is a calculation.

“You know many of these people, particularly the motivational speakers, that is their lives; they have nothing else doing. All that they are going to do is to ramble on and on before you know what is happening.

“It is not in his interest to go and debate with those people. Let us be practical and sensible about a situation. You go on areas, which you have your strength and concentrate on that. He has nothing to gain by debate."

Sagay tagged Buhari’s opponents as political dwarfs, stating that Buhari’s attendance at debates would only give relevance to the opposition.

Sagay also noted that Buhari doesn’t want to debate and make other candidates taller than they are, adding that “let them remain like that – political dwarfs. In four weeks time, we will know them."

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that Kassim Afegbua, the spokesman of the Atiku Campaign Organisation (AKO), gave one condition that would make the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, participate in the 2019 presidential debate.

It was reported that he said that the PDP candidate would only participate if the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari, would be available for the engagement.

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