Presidential debaters: (Clockwise) Muhammadu Buhari, Atiku Abubakar, Kingsley Moghalu, Oby Ezekwesili and Fela Durotoye
Only five political parties were named as participants in the 2019 vice presidential and presidential debates by the Nigerian Elections Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON).
According to a statement signed by the Executive Secretary of the NEDG, Eddi Emesiri, the parties are Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Young Progressives Party (YPP).
This means that the presidential candidates expected at the debate are Atiku Abubakar, Muhammadu Buhari, Oby Ezekwesili, Fela Durotoye and Kingsley Moghalu.
BON and NEDG have excluded Omoyele Sowore of the African Alliance Congress; Donald Duke of the Social Democratic Party; Tope Fasua, and a host of others.
The Vice Presidential debate will hold from 7:00 pm at the congress hall of the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja on Friday, December 14, 2018, while the presidential debate will take place on Saturday, January 19, 2019.
