In his reaction to the first leg of the town hall presidential debate organised by Arise TV in conjunction with the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) on Sunday, Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the All Propgressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has likened the performance of all other candidates present at the event to the “confession of witches”.

In a series of tweets on his official Twitter handle on Monday, Keyamo went on to imply that the other candidates “were disguising”.

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“They’re busy confessing like witches and cancelling themselves [sic] out. They’re calling out those deceiving some gullible Nigerians and re-packaging themselves as ‘new breeds’. Let them fight to finish; we in the APC are not disguising; we are defending our records with ‘our full chest!'” Keyamo tweeted.

Ifeanyi Okowa, Kola Abiola, Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso attended the presidential debate, representing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), the Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) respectively.

Okowa, the governor of Delta state and vice-presidential candidate of the PDP, had iterated that both Obi and Kwankwaso were PDP members till the second quarter of 2022. He also went on to claim that many “good things came from the PDP presidency between 1999 and 2007”.

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Neither Tinubu nor Kashim Shettima, his running mate, attended the debate.

The APC had earlier stated on Sunday that Tinubu “will not be making selective appearances in some networks, whilst ignoring others” and “the busy and hectic campaign schedules will not permit him to honour all such invitations by different radio and TV networks”.

Tinubu, Shettima and members of his presidential campaign council (PCC) are currently in Niger state.