A spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Daniel Bwala has reacted to the call by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, to debate with Labour Party, LP, presidential running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.
Bwala said Soyinka was not a politician and therefore should challenge Chimamanda not Datti.
Tweeting, Bwala wrote: “Am told Prof. Soyinka asked to debate Datti. No, he should ask to debate Chimamanda Adichie.
“Datti is a politician, Soyinka is not, so it will be an unfair debate.
“But both Soyinka and Chimamanda trade on literature and grammar. #Soyinkadebatechimamanda.
“When he tries Chimamanda, he will understand the phrase ‘nobody has the monopoly of knowledge’. It will certainly be the case of David v Goliath.”
On March 22, in an interview, Datti said the country has no president-elect despite the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announcing Bola Tinubu as the winner of the election.
Datti said Tinubu would be leading an unconstitutional government if sworn into office because the APC candidate “has not met requirements of the law.”
Recall that in an interview on March 22 with Seun Akinloye of ChannelsTV, Datti said the country has no president-elect because the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced Bola Tinubu as the winner of the election, contrary to the consitution.
According to him, Tinubu would be leading an unconstitutional government if sworn into office because the APC candidate “has not met requirements of the law.”
He added that should that happen, it “would end democracy in Nigeria”.
The Nobel laureate had called Datti’s opinion as fascist and challenged him to a debate, which the Labour Party had turned.
It said that their vice presidential candidate would rather debate with Soyinka’s preferred candidates, “due to politcal and cultural reasons.”
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