Wednesday, December 17, 2014
2015 Elections Should Be Issue Based - CDD
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The Centre For Democracy and Development, CDD, has called that the 2015 elections should be issue based.
Thus, as part of the process to ensure issue based campaigns and elections in 2015, CDD disclosed it will be organising inter-party debates on topical socio-economic and political issues ahead of the 2015 general elections through its Nigerian Political Parties Discussion Series (NPPDS) platform.
According to a statement signed by CDD Director, Idayat Hassan obtained by BlackBox Nigeria, the key objective of this intervention is to promote issue-based politics and transparency and accountability in government's engagement with citizens.
"Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress will be invited as guests on NPPDS to debate and enlighten Nigerians about its policies and programs, as contained in their respective manifestos, designed to address the lingering development challenges in all sectors of the country," she wrote in the statement.
The debate that is scheduled to commence Thursday, 18th of December, 2014, will according to CDD provide political parties a rare and unique opportunity to present parties' programs, on sector basis, to Nigerians as a way of institutionalising culture of issue-based politics and fostering democratic accountability in the country.
The event which is being supported by Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) would be livestreamed both online and on national television.
The Centre For Democracy and Development, CDD, has called that the 2015 elections should be issue based.
Thus, as part of the process to ensure issue based campaigns and elections in 2015, CDD disclosed it will be organising inter-party debates on topical socio-economic and political issues ahead of the 2015 general elections through its Nigerian Political Parties Discussion Series (NPPDS) platform.
According to a statement signed by CDD Director, Idayat Hassan obtained by BlackBox Nigeria, the key objective of this intervention is to promote issue-based politics and transparency and accountability in government's engagement with citizens.
"Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress will be invited as guests on NPPDS to debate and enlighten Nigerians about its policies and programs, as contained in their respective manifestos, designed to address the lingering development challenges in all sectors of the country," she wrote in the statement.
The debate that is scheduled to commence Thursday, 18th of December, 2014, will according to CDD provide political parties a rare and unique opportunity to present parties' programs, on sector basis, to Nigerians as a way of institutionalising culture of issue-based politics and fostering democratic accountability in the country.
The event which is being supported by Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) would be livestreamed both online and on national television.
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