The 90-minute encounter was characterised by frequent interruptions, mostly from Trump, and insults, with Biden calling the president a clown.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has offered reasons why he was absent at the presidential debate held on Saturday in Abuja.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, has told President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the All Progressives Congress candidate for the poll, that he cannot be represented at next week’s presidential debate by a National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Sowore spoke on Thursday with aviation correspondents at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, after he arrived from United States, aboard a Delta Air Lines flight.
Ezekwesili, who is running on the platform of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, said it is imperative that all candidates vying for the nation’s highest political position take part in debates to present their plans and policy thrust to the people.
The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the PDP was ready to attend any debate, anywhere in the country with Buhari, even if that debate was organised by the APC’s spokesman, Lai Mohammed, and the APC itself, as long as it would be televised live
The rejection of presidential debates was contained in the report of the Senate Committees on the Review of the 1999 Constitution and the Independent National Electoral Commission, entitled: “A Bill for an Act to amend the Electoral Act, 2010 to provide for tenure of office of Secretary, power to issue duplicate voters card, determine voting procedure and for other related matters, 2014,” which was presented by the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, at plenary