The
top contenders in the forthcoming March 28 Presidential election,
President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and
General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have
signed another peace accord in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital
Territory (FCT).
In what has been called a peace meeting,
the two candidates met and signed another agreement, following the peace
pact they both signed alongside other presidential candidates in
January.
The meeting was brokered by the
National Peace Committee for the 2015 General Elections, led by retired
Gen. Abdusalami Abdusalami, and is aimed at extracting commitment from
the leading candidates that the forthcoming elections would be
violence-free.
They were accompanied to the meeting by the national chairmen of their parties.
The
presidential candidates of all the political parties in Nigeria had
signed a peace accord to prevent electoral violence before, during and
after the February 14 elections, later shifted to March 28.
The
previous peace meeting had in attendance President Goodluck Jonathan of
the PDP, General Muhammadu Buhari of the APC and Professor Oluremi
Sonaiya of the KOWA Party, amongst others.
A former Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr. Kofi Annan, was also at the January 14 event.
Credit: Channels
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