BlueRayDick:


A person wants to rule over 150 million people and u think that person doesn’t need to debate his plans on how to better the lives of those people ? Like Nigeria is on the brink of collapse and u think we should vote based on whatever promise they may have written down on paper and signboards ?

Omo! It is well

izzou:


I am not the one contesting

The family that skipped today live on Bourdillon road, Ikoyi, and yes they want to win. They probably are happy their dad didn't show up tonight.

But the common man wanted to know his plan for him. Sadly, he didn't show up.

Like i said, your stats is for Remi and Seyi. It has no business with anybody here

izzou:


This is exactly how Buhari played out and today, everybody is lamenting.

BAT is better than everybody, yet he cannot come on a platform and annihilate his opponents to the educated ones like us?

Lol

You and I are educated, and to be honest, there are points we shouldn't even be defending.

Its surprising when i see defences like these sha

raumdeuter:


Question are you interested in winning election or debate?

If you are interested in winning election then you should be reaching out to the voters abi?

Let me interest you in some stats that might not be 100% correct

How many of Nigerian voting population speak and understand the type of English spoken tonight

How many of the Nigerian voting population understand deep policy proclamations made today

How many of the real voters have electricity and access to Arise TV

How many of those voters are even undecided and open minded to ideas being shared

Basically the only person's that would make a decision based on tonight's debate is
an undecided voter
who understand educated English not just pidgin,
who has electricity either by NEPA or generator.
Who was watching TV tonight and not doing other things
Who was watching Arise TV in particular
And fully understand policies being discussed

I can tell you the number of such people fit no reach 2000 in the entire population

That's an insignificant number to the total voting number

raumdeuter:


Which of the common men?
How many of the common men understand what they are discussing tonight and will make a decision based on it

OasisX:


Brother.... this is not defence rather Reality from logical point of view. I personally want him attending debates, but seems he's more concerned widening his coverage than spending time on Air addressing Nigerians that probably won't even turn up at the poll.

I will be glad to at least have Shettima represented him. I will be more glad if he attends at least Channels Debate personally.

Tataffo:


Yeah I know...perhaps he is now saying debate is not that important and someone had to dig that up

izzou:


So the millions of voters in Lagos state have no access to TVs and YouTube abi?

Na only 2000 people watch TV this night?

Sorry 1999...Nihilistjnr is in the UK. He doesn't count

OasisX:


Brother.... this is not defence rather Reality from logical point of view. I personally want him attending debates, but seems he's more concerned widening his coverage than spending time on Air addressing Nigerians that probably won't even turn up at the poll.

I will be glad to at least have Shettima represented him. I will be more glad if he attends at least Channels Debate personally.

raumdeuter:


If you are interested in winning election then you should be reaching out to the voters abi?

Let me interest you in some stats that might not be 100% correct

How many of Nigerian voting population speak and understand the type of English spoken tonight

How many of the Nigerian voting population understand deep policy proclamations made today

How many of the real voters have electricity and access to Arise TV

How many of those voters are even undecided and open minded to ideas being shared

Basically the only person's that would make a decision based on tonight's debate is
an undecided voter
who understand educated English not just pidgin,
who has electricity either by NEPA or generator.
Who was watching TV tonight and not doing other things
Who was watching Arise TV in particular
And fully understand policies being discussed

I can tell you the number of such people fit no reach 2000 in the entire population

That's an insignificant number to the total voting number

Debates in Nigeria are for the likes of Fela Durotoye to show their oratory skills

raumdeuter:


Debate is to massage the ego of elites that are likely not going to vote or have made up their minds

A former president of America said I can shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any vote.

That's the home of democracy

BlueRayDick:




U are so much detached from reality in Nigeria . It doesn’t even cost more than ₦2,000 to watch Gotv monthly and Gotv has AriseTv showing on their bouquet. Even pensioners can afford it.

We are in 2022 not in 1999 or 2003 during the time of OBJ. We are not asking too much when we demand the presidential candidates speak to us about their plans , they are not going to rule over the few people that congregate their town hall meetings , they are going to lead us all. That was how we felt Buhari doesn’t need to debate , till we started begging him to even speak to us through media chats.

izzou:


We have been here, and it will repeat itself again

Buhari avoided debates. Osibanjo was excellent.
Today, Nigeria is clutching at straws, and PYO is still VP

BAT is avoiding debates. Shettima is thrilling us with promises an end to insecurity in 6 months

Well, make i no talk much. The people that voted massively for Buhari are buying fuel for 300 per litre. At least, my own na 200 per liter.

God go continue to dey show some of us mercy.

Na my prayer be that

OasisX:


.... Essence of Debate is convincing Voter, Masses while you deserve the shot. Kola triumphs over the rest technically. I guess that has won Agbadorians, Mikano Boys and Obidense to his Camp?!

raumdeuter:


Fela Durotoye and Moughalu did more than that. What was their total votes

raumdeuter:


Read this again carefully and you will understand

Basically the only person's that would make a decision based on tonight's debate is
an undecided voter
who understand educated English not just pidgin,
who has electricity either by NEPA or generator.
Who was watching TV tonight and not doing other things
Who was watching Arise TV in particular
And fully understand policies being discussed
I mean someone who fulfill all these conditions not just one or two
I can tell you the number of such people fit no reach 2000 in the entire population

Think about it again

OasisX:


You have solid points and I am not engaging you to dispute it. I am simply wanna be a Realist this time around based on past experiences.

BlueRayDick:


This is ur personal opinion that is premised on false sense of conviction.

izzou:


You can also be a realist by telling us how better off we have been based on past experiences.

Maybe the man is not as good as you think he is

raumdeuter:


Question are you interested in winning election or debate?

If you are interested in winning election then you should be reaching out to the voters abi?

Let me interest you in some stats that might not be 100% correct

How many of Nigerian voting population speak and understand the type of English spoken tonight

How many of the Nigerian voting population understand deep policy proclamations made today

How many of the real voters have electricity and access to Arise TV

How many of those voters are even undecided and open minded to ideas being shared

Basically the only person's that would make a decision based on tonight's debate is
an undecided voter
who understand educated English not just pidgin,
who has electricity either by NEPA or generator.
Who was watching TV tonight and not doing other things
Who was watching Arise TV in particular
And fully understand policies being discussed

I can tell you the number of such people fit no reach 2000 in the entire population

That's an insignificant number to the total voting number

Theflint1:
I don't think there's any campaign in this election cycle that will have over 100K person's in attendance, not to mention those that were following on Twitter, Facebook and on arise TV itself. I'm sure we could have had close to 250K person's following that debate.

raumdeuter:


What is false about it. How many voters in Nigeria will watch and change their mind based on this debate

Tataffo:
If osinbajo had resigned 2years or first tenure sef when he discovered his hands were tied and nothing good was coming out of buhari 's admin..then joined a populist party to build a 3rd force from 2019 like obi is doing now, align/merge with obi for 2023,hmmm...

osibanjo workrate pre2015 was just like Obi's,entering danfos,brt,giving talks everywhere to induce voters,most joined the buhari ship cos of him

South and northcentral would've been in the bag,no one would be calling yorubas voting osibanjo an omo-ale or hold him to buhari's failures....

kwankwanso,tinubu and atiku would be sharing the underage almajiris illiterate core north who can be induced with money and vote buying....

Osibanjo/obi would've won before 2pm ...

maybe I'm just fantasizing sha

BlueRayDick:


Where I work, I know 4 different people that have PVC’s , don’t know who to vote for yet out of the 4 most popular candidates and they will most likely watch the AriseTv (if they are chanced). These who people have spouses (who I don’t know about their voting decisions )

That was why I said ur opinion is based on a false sense of conviction. U believe almost everyone is neck deep in this APC vs PDP/ OBIdient-BAT-Atikulated stuff and will vote solely on whatever anybody writes on paper or campaign posters. Some people just want the country to at least be better than buhari met it.

One of the 4 people I mentioned earlier has 2 kids in a public university; she’s been apprehensive ever since the issue of Ngige ordering that only half of October salary should be paid to University lecturers. Like she had to put in time to make sure the kids don’t fall into depression having stayed home for almost 8 months .Do u think such person will just vote a candidate because he’s Yoruba , Igbo or Hausa ? Do u think such person wouldn’t be interested in hearing propositions of how the incoming president will find a lasting solution to the ASUU issue ?

These are real life issues affecting the lives of people on a daily. We saw how Buhari didn’t even engage anybody at the debates . Tinubu did all the talking at the rallies promising end to ASUU strike and even promising student loans; we all know how it is going now .