Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye has insisted that the
All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Major General
Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) must attend the Presidential Election Debate,
saying; “Buhari and other presidential aspirants must answer questions
from Nigerians that they want to govern.”
The minister said “it is obvious that Buhari is empty intellectually
and is avoiding the presidential election debate so as not to ridicule
himself.”
In a statement issued on Sunday and made available to press men in Ado
Ekiti, Adeyeye said Nigerians must put pressure on Buhari to attend
the debate.
He said; “If Buhari is not comfortable with the Broadcasting
Organisation of Nigeria (BON), he should tell Nigerians under which
platform he wants his competence and mental alertness to be measured.
“Buhari can even choose which organisation to organise the debate and
the venue. He can choose CNN, Aljazeera or BBC.
“All we are demanding is to see Buhari, who has been unable to speak
for more than five minutes in any of the APC presidential campaign
rallies respond to questions from Nigerians for three hours.”
While declaring that Buhari was already showing signs of senility,
Adeyeye said; “On Saturday, during the APC campaign rally in Ilorin,
Kwara State, Buhari referred to Senator Bukola Saraki as governor of
Kwara State.
“The other time in Owerri, Imo State, Buhari referred to his running
mate as Osunbade instead of Osinbajo and also referred to Imo State as
Ibo State.
“In all the presidential campaign rallies held by the APC, Buhari did
not speak for more than one hour and he spoke incoherently.
“Like other presidential aspirants, including President Goodluck
Jonathan, Nigerians deserve to assess whoever that is aspiring to
govern them and the only way to do that is the election debate.
“Therefore, Buhari must debate so that Nigerians can ask him what he
did when he was Head of State, why he cancelled Lagos Metroline
Project, why he cancelled free education and free health programmes in
the Southwest and what happened to the $2.8bn oil money.
“Most importantly, Nigerians want Buhari to explain the roles he
played in the N25bn Afri-Project Consortium (APC) Petroleum Trust Fund
(PTF) scam and they are waiting for him to debate.”
