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The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate said instead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled presidential debate; he had kicked off town hall meetings to directly interact with Nigerians from all walks of life.

Buhari alongside his running mate Prof Yemi Osinbajo will interact and explain to citizens the policy thrust of their envisaged administration should he win the presidential election and how the set objectives will be achieved.

The town hall meetings kicked off in Lagos on Monday with interaction between Buhari and Osinbajo with the organised private sector, a statement from his campaign media and publicity director Malam Garba Shehu said.

Buhari said his party was compelled to chart this course because of the need to have a person-to-person interactive session during which pertinent questions will be posed to the candidates and responses provided.

"Our campaign decided to chart this path because we cannot afford to shy away from the more pressing urgency to have one-on-one interactions with Nigerians through town hall meetings," Buhari's spokesperson said.

"Due to the more pressing urgency to have an open interaction with Nigerians, the campaign will be organising town hall meetings in different parts of the country," the statement said.

The statement said "on Tuesday, the town hall meeting will hold in Kano with traders and market associations. Thereafter, the meeting will hold in Benin with labour and civil society leaders.

"The focus of the town hall meeting will then shift to Ibadan where students and youth groups will be engaging General Buhari and Professor Osinbajo, while Enugu and Port Harcourt will follow suit," it said.

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Akinwunmi Ambode

The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, says continued progress and development of the state should be of major concern to Lagosians.

He added that there was no need for the residents to experiment with the Peoples Democratic Party as the APC had done well.

Ambode explained that if allowed in Lagos, the PDP would only replicate bad governance it had been displaying at the federal level.

The governorship candidate spoke on Monday at the APC campaign rally in the Ojo Local Government Area.

He said, The continued progress and development of Lagos is the major concern of our party and that is why we will not allow PDP to win the state because they will disrupt the continuity of good governance in Lagos.

I have learnt good governance from Bola Tinubu and our Governor, Babatunde Fashola, for 15 years. The state needs a financial wizard like me to manage its economy.

Ambode told the audience that he served as a former auditor general of the local government and later, of the state. He added that a competent financial manager like him would move the state forward.

He said he had a wealth of experience on how to run the state successfully and as such, was better prepared for the governorship job.

He said, Continuity of good governance is the watch word of our campaign. We will build another general hospital in the Ojo area of the state and complete the on going light rail project and the expansion of the Lagos- Badagry Expressway.

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The Presidential campaign of the All Progressives Congress and its Peoples Democratic Party counterpart on Monday clashed over the refusal of the former to honour an invitation to hold a live debate on national issues.

According to the APC presidential campaign, its candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was turning down an invitation to hold a debate with President Goodluck Jonathan because there were more serious campaign issues.

The APC campaign explained that its candidate was commencing a series of town hall meetings across the nation as part of his deliberate strategy of campaign ahead of the February 14 presidential election.

This was contained in a statement signed by the APC presidential campaign Director of the Media, Garba Shehu.

He explained that Buhari and his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo would interact and explain directly to citizens the policy thrust of their envisaged administration and how the set objectives would be achieved.

The statement said the town hall meetings which started in Lagos on Monday, with a robust interaction between Buhari/Osibanjo and the Organised Private Sector would be taken to other parts of the nation.

According to him, the party is compelled to chart this course because of the compelling need to have person-to-person interactive sessions during which pertinent questions will be posed to the candidates and responses provided.

In response, the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation said it condemned the contempt with which the APC presidential candidate had held Nigerians with his consistent refusal to participate in live television debates with President Goodluck Jonathan.

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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has urged the people of the state not to vote for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, saying he is being controlled by the states PDP leader, Chief Bode George, and a former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe.

The PDP had, last week, accused the APC governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, of being a puppet of former Governor Bola Tinubu.

However, the APC in a statement titled, Lagos will never become Bode George and Ogunlewes feeding bottle, the Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said if Agbaje was voted into office, he would hand over the resources of the state to George and Ogunlewe.

Igbokwe said the PDP would rundown Lagos State just as it had run down the Federal Government.

The APC said Agbaje was imposed on other PDP aspirants by George and Ogunlewe at the governorship primary as part of their plans to take control of the running of the state.

The statement read, It is a well known fact that Agbaje is a stooge and puppet to the duo of Olabode George and Adeseye Ogunlewe, two politicians that are best remembered for the despoliation that trailed their feel of political office in the ant-infested PDP governance of Nigeria in the past 16 years.

Even in its most desperate state, PDP in Lagos, Agbaje and his godfathers will never argue the well known fact that Lagos remains the most viable state in a Nigeria where the myth of oil is dying and states have to live on what they have invested in building an independent economy that will drive its survival.

In contrast, the Nigeria Jimi Agbaje and his PDP want to import to Lagos is one where hundreds of trillions of naira have been earned in 16 years yet there is no electricity, no jobs, all infrastructures are decayed, where corruption walks on all fours, where insecurity of lives and properties have become the order of the day

Lagosians will never exchange competent, judicious and sure-footed governance that have given Lagos its enviable status as the last hope of a collapsing Nigerian economy for a puppet of two grudging godfathers. Lagos will never ever regress to become the feeding bottle for Olabode George.

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