The campaign organisation of
Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) has
asked Oby Ezekwesili, Kingsley Moghalu and Fela Durotoye to boycott the
presidential debate slated for January 19, 2019.
Ezekwesili is the presidential
candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN); Moghalu is the candidate
of Young Progressives Party (YPP) and Durotoye is of the Alliance for New
Nigeria (ANN).
While the Nigerian Elections
Debate Group (NEDG) excluded Sowore and a host of others from the debates, it
invited Ezekwesili, Moghalu and Durotoye.
In a statement by Malcolm Fabiyi,
director-general of the Take It Back movement, Sowore’s campaign group, said
boycotting the debate is a test of their character as voices of the new
political generation in Nigeria.
“After the massive outcry that
greeted the exclusion of Sowore from the presidential debates organised by
NEDG, BON and Channels TV, Fela Durotoye, Kingsley Moghalu and Oby Ezekwesili
sent Twitter messages asking for transparency in the selection process and
requesting the inclusion of Omoyele Sowore in the debate,” the statement read.
“While we salute them for their
tweets, we ask them to do more. Tweets are cheap. Now that they have talked the
talk, the question is will they walk the walk? These candidates know that their
questions will not be answered simply because they asked nicely on Twitter.
They know that they must act – with integrity, decisiveness and courage. If
they claim to be part of a youth vanguard for change, this is their test of
character.
“For Moghalu, Ezekwesili and
Durotoye, this is the first test that they will face as voices of the new
political generation in Nigeria. Each of them has acknowledged that the process
that saw their emergence as debate participants was flawed. The question is
this: will they be a part of this debate travesty? Will they affirm and endorse
corruption by standing on a stage that was designed to fraudulently exclude
authentic voices like Sowore’s from the debate about Nigeria’s future?
“Will Moghalu, Ezekwesili and
Durotoye stand up for truth by boycotting a debate that is non-inclusive and
obviously flawed? Or will their introduction to the Nigerian people be one that
is aided by grand fraud and deception, enabled by the same system they claim to
want to change.”
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