Nigerian Presidential Debates
By Terhemba Osuji It is amazing that so many people are clamoring for their respective candidates without actually knowing or forming a personal impression about these candidates based on personal or direct experiences with these individuals. Most people form an opinion about these candidates based on group think and choreographed sound bites, slogans and press releases from and about each of these candidates. Most of these candidates are often adopted by a small secretive group or a non-democratic caucus who foist these candidates on the party over more qualified politicians to the detriment of the country which ends up with leaders with poor social skills. So it is quite disappointing that the Two presidential candidates and the country in general have not come up with an iron cast formula to have a series of debates, presidential and others as a mainstay in Nigerian politics. The failure of the system to demand such debates is indicative of how the country wants to be led - by myste...