The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), on Sunday, called on presidential candidates for the 2023 general elections to engage in issue-based campaign.
CDD Director, Idayat Hassan, gave the charge in a statement released on Sunday for the second series of presidential town-hall meeting ahead of the 2023 general elections.
“We welcome other platforms and opportunities to support an issues-based campaign in the run-up to the 2023 elections.
“Nigerians need to hear how their future leaders plan to address the rising level of insecurity, considerable economic challenges and the impact of foreign affairs in domestic considerations,”the statement read
“This has informed our engagements around the elections, from providing fact-checking support and working with partners to provide analyses on the election security terrain.
“We are optimistic that such dialogue and engagement can only portend for better civic engagement and lead to a peaceful and reflective election outcome,” she said.
The presidential candidates participating in the event include Omoyele Sowore of African Action Congress; Yabagi Sani of African Democratic Congress; Peter Umeadi of All Progressives Grand Alliance and Adewole Adebayo of Social Democratic Party.
The first edition of the meeting held last week was attended by the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party.
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu couldn’t attend while that of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP,Atiku Abubakar was represented by his running mate,Dr Ifeanyi Okowa.