President Muhammadu Buhari and vice-president Prof. Yemi Osinbajo are currently live participating in a two-hour town-hall programme at the Ladi Kwali Conference Centre, Ballroom of Sheraton Hotel Abuja.
The President and his Vice face an audience to answer questions about their plans for Nigeria, courtesy of MacArthur Foundation.
According to a statement, attendance to the event is strictly by invitation and guests are expected to be seated by 7:00 pm.
Part of the statement reads:
“The presidential series, which is 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.
“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.”
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