2023: Tinubu absent as Presidential Candidates sign peace accord
……..As Ralph Nwosu disgraced at National Peace Summit.
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, was on Thursday conspicuously absent as candidates of the registered parties for 2023 committed themselves to the signing of the peace accord at the 1st Signing of the National Peace Accord by Presidential Candidates and Party Chairmen ahead of the 2023 General Elections.
The event which was held at the International Conference Center (ICC), Abuja was organised by the 17-member National Peace Committee (NPC) headed by the former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar and The Kukah Centre, the secretariat of the NPC
The NPC intends to commit political parties and their spokespersons to conduct their campaign (both online and offline) in a peaceful manner, devoid of ethnic, religious and hateful rhetoric to incite violence and to promote a focus on issue-based campaign
It is also to commit the political parties, candidates and their spokespersons to accept the outcome of the election results as long as it has been judged to be free, fair and credible.
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The initiative was conceived in 2014 in response to emerging threats occasioned by the 2015 general elections.
Ralph Nwosu disgraced at National Peace Summit.
This came just as the immediate past Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) was publicly disgraced at the occasion when Kachikwu the Presidential candidate of the Party distanced himself from him telling him to his face that he was no longer the Chairman! of the party and as such had no business signing the peace accord on behalf of the party.
At that point the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Interim Caretaker Chairman Senator Patricia Akwasheke
signed on behalf of the party.
Members of the audience were surprised when they saw the former chairman who claimed to have expelled the party’s presidential candidate struggling to stand next to him and take photos with him as Kachikwu ignored him.
Recall that Nwosu had said the party have no Presidential candidate hence his presence at a Presidential peace signing accord ceremony surpassed the audience
18 registered political parties have been listed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as partaking in the 2023 general elections.
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party amon were the first to arrive the venue.
The peace accord was organised by the National Peace Committee headed by former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah.
Other dignitaries present at the occasion! include Prof Yakub Mamood ,INEC Chairman, the vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Senator Kashim Shettima; presidential candidates of Action Alliance(AA) Omoleye Sowore , New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPPC Senator Rabiu Kwanwaso. Chief Dumebi
Kachikwu,the Presidential candidate of the ADC, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gahbam of the Social Democratic Party, Prince AdebayoAdewole’ Presidential Candidate of the SDP and the national chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullah Adamu amongst Others
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