A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesil, has offered a solution to the continued absence of presidential candidates in pre-election debates in the country.
The co-convener of the BringBackourGirls Movement was reacting to the absence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, in Sunday’s presidential town hall series put together by Arise TV in Abuja.
In a series of tweets on her Twitter handle on Wednesday, the ex-minister proposed a class action suit that would compel front-runner presidential candidates in the country to attend debates ahead of the 2023 general elections.
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She argued that the debates were important to keep citizens informed about the plans of those jostling to rule them.
Ezekwesili wrote: “I want to co-lead a class-action suit asking the courts to compel…
