Presidential debate: AD VP in auto crash

ABUJA —TRAGEDY hit the ongoing presidential
debate as the vice presidential candidate of the
Alliance for Democracy, AD, Akuchie Clinton Cliff
was said to have been involved in an auto crash
on his way to the airport to attend the vice
presidential debate in Abuja, yesterday.
Also yesterday, another vice presidential candidate,
Hassanatu Hassan of the Citizens Popular Party,
CPP, who was billed to attend the ongoing debate
was reportedly operated upon in an undisclosed
hospital.
The coordinator of the 2015 Nigerian Elections
Debate Group, NEDG, Taiwo Alimi who disclosed
this at the venue of the event said both contestants
were unavoidably absent because of their
indispositions and had communicated to the
organizers.
However, most of the candidates have blamed
some of the social vices in the country especially
the issue of hunger and unemployment to the
scourge of corruption in Nigeria.
Specifically, the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria,
ACPN, vice presidential candidate, Ojengbede
Farida in reaction to how her party would tackle
corruption if elected said hunger and
unemployment that had assumed alarming
proportion in the country were as a result of
corruption.
Farida who said that the people of Nigeria desired
a better deal than what they were getting from the
present government also said that the country’s
political growth was affected by the politics of
money bags and godfatherism where governance
had become a family affair.
The ACPN vice presidential candidate who said that
the issue of corruption would not be business as
usual if the party was given the mandate stated
that “until perpetrators are named, shamed and
punished, corruption will not stop.”