As part of its strategy to bring governance closer to the people, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) held its Osun State Governorship live debate in Yoruba language.

This initiative, the first in the country, BBC said is a pilot to next year’s General elections where it intends to do the debate in the three major languages in the country-Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa- as well as English language.

Governorship candidates of the All Progressives Congress’ (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ADC, ADP and SDP would take part in the 90 minutes.

According to BBC’s publicist Marina Forsythe, the debate was meant to build impactful governance in Osun State.

“The BBC has done debates before general elections in the United Kingdom and will be extending this culture to Nigeria.

“BBC Yoruba, one of the newly launched language services kicked off the Nigeria debate series in Osun State with the theme: Building impactful governance in Osun State.

All Governorship aspirants were in attendance except for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who did not show up for the meeting.