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Arise Television Morning Show anchor, Rufai Oseni, has criticised the recent interview appearance of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, arguing that the former Anambra State governor failed to outline clear policy measures for addressing Nigeria’s pressing challenges.

Oseni made the remarks on Monday while reacting to Obi’s interview on Channels Television on Sunday.

According to the broadcaster, anyone seeking the nation’s highest office should go beyond broad campaign promises and clearly explain the ideas and methods behind their proposed policies.

“And that’s what I did not see yesterday. I didn’t see the how. We can’t run a country on vibes,” Oseni said.

He maintained that with the election approaching, Nigerians should by now have access to comprehensive manifestos and well-defined policy frameworks from presidential candidates.

“By now, if elections are in January, we are now in August, we have not seen manifesto. Six months to go.

“Secondly, we are not seeing proper articulation of how you will do it.

“In fact, I think all candidates should stop telling us I will do this. They should start telling us how. We should see an idea. It’s the idea that we want to debate, the workability of the idea, and that I didn’t see. I didn’t see a lot of that,” he said.

Oseni also took issue with repeated campaign pledges to address insecurity without a clear explanation of the strategy for achieving such goals.

“We will fix insecurity. How? And please, people should stop telling us ‘I don’t want to share my operational details’.

“Nobody say you should share your operational details, because as a candidate, you can’t have operational details. Operational details are specific to operations, hence the name operational details.

“Nobody say you should share that. What we are saying is overarching details, methodology, how you are going to do it. That’s just it.”

The television presenter further stated that he expected presidential hopefuls to present technical and methodological approaches to key sectors of the economy, particularly the electricity industry.

“I mean, these are things as regards technicality and methodology. These are the things I want to hear from our candidates.

“Power sector, what would you do as regards them about creating thousands of megawatts? Major problem in the power sector today is transmission.

“We have 13,000 installed capacity, but why are we not seeing more than 5000 megawatts capacity for transmission?

“Are you going to put investment there? Are you going to raise the equity for the investment? I mean, those are paramount questions. So please, we want to see more of those details,” he said.

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