Drama ensued at the presidential debate organised by Arise Television and a group, Centre for Democracy and Development on Sunday as supporters of the Labour Party disrupted the event for some minutes over the inclusion of the vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ifeanyi Okowa. The supporters who earlier said they would not allow Okowa to represent the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar at the debate, later asked Obi to leave the venue.
Speakers of the state Houses of Assembly in the North, under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have endorsed the candidacy of Senator