The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Abubakar Audu; his Labour Party counterpart, Mr. Phillip Salawu, and the Progressive Peoples Alliance candidate, Mr. Enesi Ozigi, were absent at the Third Kogi Gubernatorial Debate on Tuesday night.
No reasons were given for their absence.
Only the Kogi State Governor, Capt. Idris Wada, who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, participated at the debate.
The debate, which held at the Goshen Hotel, Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, was organised by the Kogi Coalition of Business and Professional Associations with support from the Nigeria Election Debate Group; Centre for International Private Enterprise, Washington DC; International Republican Institute; and Kogi Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture.
The coordinator of the debate, Dr. John Alabi, said though there were 22 political parties and candidates for the election, only four of them were assessed by the group to have merited all the criteria for the debate.
He stated that the qualified parties had structures in the state capital and in the three senatorial districts of the state.
Wada, while fielding questions from the election debate panel, said his administration had ensured peace and security in the state and unified stakeholders for the advancement of Kogi.
He added that his government had also addressed violent crimes such as armed robbery and kidnapping, which he said were rampant in the state.
APC candidate, Audu others shun election debate
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