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.
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.
“Mr Obi, please talk to your supporters,” the anchor of the programme, Reuben Abati was heard appealing to the LP candidate to appeal to his supporters.
Obi however denied those disrupting the events were his supporters.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress and Atiku failed to attend the debate.
Present at the debate were the presidential candidates of the New Nigerians Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwakwanso; Peoples Redemption Party, Kola Abiola and Obi.
Meanwhile, Okowa represented Atiku, while Tinubu had no representative.
Meanwhile, Adewole Adebayo of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has expressed his dissatisfaction with not being invited to the debate.
Adebayo in a series of tweets on his verified Twitter page described his exclusion and that of other presidential candidates from the debate as unfair.
He described the four candidates invited –Obi, Atiku, Tinubu and Kwankwaso as “the Liar, the Joker, the Dodger, and the Corrupt.”