President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who are also the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming presidential elections, will today, Wednesday, January 16, 2019, at 8:00pm (Nigerian time) participate in a live televised two-hour presidential town-hall programme. “The venue shall be the Ladi Kwali Conference Center, Ballroom of Sheraton Hotel Abuja. Attendance is strictly by invitation. All guests are expected to be seated by 7:00pm,” according to Festus Keyamo, SAN, Director, Strategic Communications (Official Spokesperson), APC Presidential Campaign Council.

He said last night in a statement that the presidential series titled “The Candidates”, “is designed by the organisers to have both the Presidential and their Vice-Presidential Candidates of selected political parties on stage at the same time and at different dates to take questions from the moderator, Kadaria Ahmed, and from the general public through various platforms.”

Keyamo disclosed that the programme would be broadcast live on NTA, which shall in turn provide the live feeds to other partner stations like TVC, Wazobia TV, Oak TV and on all Radio Nigeria stations.

“It will also be streamed on-line at dtv.media to enable Nigerians in diaspora to participate,” he said, adding that “Nigerians are encouraged to kindly tune in to participate.”

Update news