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Legit.ng journalist, Ridwan Adeola Yusuf, has over 9 years of experience covering politics and elections in Nigeria.
Benin City, Edo state - Less than an hour before the signing of the peace accord between contending political parties ahead of the September 21 governorship election in Edo state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it was not disposed to signing the peace accord.
This position comes barely 12 hours after Governor Godwin Obaseki while receiving the chairman of the presidential peace committee, former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, said the PDP may not sign the peace accord because the party have lost faith in the police and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Speaking on Thursday, September 12, at the venue of the signing of the peace accord in Benin, the Edo state capital, Gen. Abubakar said:
“I met the governor yesterday (Wednesday, September 11) and he told me the PDP are not going to sign this peace accord.“They had made some observations and I was expecting the chairman of the PDP to come and make that statement, having waited for him this long he chose to announce that the PDP said they are not going to sign and they have got some conditionalities.“They said that after these conditionalities have been met, they will come to Abuja and sign.”Legit.ng cannot immediately confirm if the All Progressives Congress (APC) keyed in, but the Labour Party candidate, Olumide Akpata, signed the accord.
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