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#NgTheCandidates: Atiku, Obi on the hot seat (Live Updates)

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"I am a candidate for the future, because I try to bridge the current generation with the future generation." – PDP presidential candidate, @Atiku Abubakar.#NgTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/KYWilpL8Xf
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"While I was governor of Anambra state, I invested $50m in the oil sector. I also invested several millions in banks. I was investing in the future of the state." – PDP vice-presidential candidate, @PeterObi.#NgTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/EqY6yPO9h8
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"If in Adamawa state I could lift about 45,000 people out of poverty through a small microfinance bank I set up, then we can do same in the centre." – @Atiku Abubakar.#NgTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/4nse6Dq9ZH
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"Let's stop borrowing and learn what they (other countries) are doing to grow their economy." –@PeterObi#NgTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/SqAD6LnaHk
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"If you don't move the economy to private sector-driven, you are clearly wasting everybody's time… In lifting people out of poverty, we must be private sector-driven." –@PeterObi#NgTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/vFH0hf3tF8
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"I borrowed @officialEFCC N300m from the privatisation proceeds so they could get to work." – @atiku Abubakar#NGTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/Av511dmjYq
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"Obasanjo could not find me guilty of any wrong doing, even as I am the most-investigated public official in this country." –@Atiku Abubakar.#NGTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/JhDgnV0x5w
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"Somebody deported beggars from Lagos and I complained …How can I deport people to Akwa-Ibom when my wife is from Akwa-Ibom? …I have never in my life discriminated against any human being." –@PeterObi#NGTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/7YYu8VWNsH
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"I don't understand how the military got involved in the Shiites issue. I think if there's any issue with the group, it should be handled by the Police." – @Atiku Abubakar#NGTheCandidates @PoliceNG @HQNigerianArmy pic.twitter.com/A4m5Q0zdrO
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"We know our poor people." – @Atiku Abubakar.#NGTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/bCDrtzN3ya
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"All my companies are paying tax, you can go and verify. The tax that I'm paying personally is from what I earn as an individual." – @Atiku Abubakar#NGTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/xc2KtZzBDS
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"Atiku built a private university. Tell me who else in his class built one." – @PeterObi#NGTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/Kwx7QBnYak
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"$16bn (spent on power) as at the time PDP was in government was 2.4tn. But this current party in government has borrowed a total of 7.428tn for capital votes… yet APC has never invested 1kobo in the power sector." – @PeterObi#NGTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/cWWXnFfBrC
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019
"When I was vice president, I took a tour to Anambra state and found all the public schools closed for two years and overtaken by weeds." – @Atiku Abubakar #NGTheCandidates pic.twitter.com/5Xfjk5i0N4
— Ripples Nigeria (@RipplesNG) January 30, 2019