The top contenders in the forthcoming March 28 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have today signed another peace accord in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
In what has been called a peace meeting, the two candidates today 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 Abubakar, and is aimed at extracting commitment from the leading candidates that the forthcoming elections will be violence-free.
Jonathan and Buhari were accompanied to the meeting by the national chairmen of their parties.
The presidential candidates of all the political parties in Nigeria had signed an accord to prevent electoral violence before, during and after the February 14 elections. (Channelstv, News Express).