{"id":131100,"date":"2024-09-16T23:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edu-guber-tinubu-didnt-sign-peace-accord-committee-cant-force-pdp-kukah"},"modified":"2024-09-17T00:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T23:24:29","slug":"edu-guber-tinubu-didnt-sign-peace-accord-committee-cant-force-pdp-kukah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edu-guber-tinubu-didnt-sign-peace-accord-committee-cant-force-pdp-kukah","title":{"rendered":"Edu guber: Tinubu didn\u2019t sign peace accord, committee can\u2019t force PDP \u2014 Kukah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Matthew Hassan-Kukah, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has stated that candidates cannot be forced to sign a peace accord ahead of the 2024, Edo governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>The signing of the peace accord was in the instance of the National Peace Committee headed by the former Nigeria\u2019s Head of State, General Abdulsalam abubakar to shun electoral violence during elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, shunned the pre-election peace accord, which has become an electoral ritual in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking about the development on Sunday, during the Edo Election Security Townhall programme in Benin City, Bishop Kukah who is one of the conveners of the National Peace Committee, said the group can\u2019t force any candidate to sign.<\/p>\n<p>While noting that the failure of the PDP to sign the peace accord was a wrong signal to Nigerians, Kukah revealed that the current president Bola Tinubu also refused to sign when he was a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Peace Committee, what we do is not in the Electoral Act, it is not a law. It is moral. You can\u2019t compel people to love their neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go back to the 2015 election, Atiku Abubakar the presidential candidate for the PDP, was not there to sign the Peace Accord. And the opposition went to town, which is what it ought to be, and the next day, Atiku turned up to sign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is also very interesting is that the current president did not sign when he was a presidential candidate. it wasn\u2019t our fault that the political opposition didn\u2019t take advantage of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a pity but we are not going to take anybody to court for not signing it. The only thing it does to you as a candidate is that it sends a wrong signal which can be exploited by the opposition,\u201d Kukah stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Matthew Hassan-Kukah, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has stated that candidates cannot be forced to sign a peace accord ahead of the 2024, Edo governorship election. 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