THE presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan and his   All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate counterpart, Maj Gen Mohammadu Buhari, retd, would participate in a town hall meeting aimed at addressing some critical electioneering issues.

The event which is being convened by the Concerned Nigerian Professionals and Enterprises Forum,CPEF, is expected to hold on March 20, 2015 in Abuja.

Briefing newsmen yesterday in Lagos, Convener of CPEF, Mr. Emeka Ugwu-Oju said a similar event would also take place simultaneously on March 15, 2015 across five geo-political zones while it would hold on March 16, 2015 in the South-South.

His words: ‘’For the purpose of a successful and professionally organised general elections, we have planned to hold seven town hall meetings in the six geopolitical zones. We are positive that the presidential candidates will be in attendance. There are no doubts about that because we have reached out to them. Professionals are the wealth creators so we are not envisaging that they will ignore us. The issues that will be discussed are key to peaceful elections. We are doing this because we want the elections to be credible. When campaigns are issue based, the outcome of the elections would not fall short of international standards.’’

‘’We are focusing on the PDP and APC candidates because we know that either of them would emerge as President. So far the issue of debate has generated so much interest in the country, no matter how debates are viewed, we are convinced that they are key to the process of electioneering decision making.’’