The All Progressives Congress, APC, has announced its decision not to sign the peace accord, just two hours before the scheduled signing ceremony in a shocking turn of events.
This decision is coming ahead of the September 21 governorship election, where the peace accord was intended to promote a peaceful electoral process among opposing political parties.
This is also occuring barely 12 hours after Governor Godwin Obaseki while receiving the Chairman of the Presidential Peace Committee, former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar said his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may not sign the peace accord because the party have lost faith in the police and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Addressing a press conference at the APC party secretariat, Emperor Jarret Tenebe said the reasons for not signing the peace accord among others was that for over two months after a police inspector Onuh Akor who was the orderly to the candidate of the party, Sen Monday Okpebholo was shot and killed along Airport Road, nobody has been arrested and prosecuted.
Tenebe said, “This failure of the police has emboldened the State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his Peoples Democratic Party to attack members of our political party at rally grounds and in their private business premises ceaselessly.”
He also complained abouth the various attacks the APC campaign team have suffered in different communities Akoko-Edo, Etsako Central, Esan West local government area while trying to garner supporters for the upcoming election.
He also mentioned that several other chieftains of the PDP have publicly boasted that they would do anything and get away with it and that the party’s petition to the police about these incidents with the names of suspects attached have not been addressed.
“In the wake of this very worrisome and dangerous trend, Governor Obaseki kept mute and refused to condemn the attacks as the Chief Security Officer of the state. Instead, one Odion Olaye, the Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress in Edo State, while in the company of Obaseki, openly threatened the country that, “Nigeria will burn if INEC fails to declare the PDP candidate, Asue Ighodalo as the winner of the September 21, 2024 gubernatorial election,” he said
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