Former Head of State, Gen.Muhammadu Buhari
The
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari on Friday reiterated his commitment to the Abuja peace
Accord.
He said himself and President Goodluck Jonathan signed a new accord reinforcing their commitment to violent-free elections.
This, he said, was a follow- up to the
Abuja Accord which they both signed, along with nine other party
leaders, on January 14, 2015, to show “our commitment to free, fair and
credible elections in our dear country.”
In a statement he signed in Abuja barely
24 hours to the presidential elections, Buhari said, “I take these
accords very seriously, and this has reflected in the issues-based
campaign which I ran all through the period of electioneering campaign,
despite the provocative and sleazy campaign directed at my person and my
party.”
He, however, expressed disappointment
that certain happenings within the polity across the country, ahead of
Saturday’s elections, run against the contents and spirit of the peace
accords.
He said, for example, the ink with which
the new peace accord was signed had barely dried when he started
hearing reports of violence directed against members of the All
Progressives Congress, as well as glaring acts of harassment and
intimidation being carried out against the opposition by security agents
across the country.
He said, “Shots were fired at the convoy
of the Director General of my Campaign Organisation, His Excellency
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, in Rumuolumeni, Obio Akpor area
of Port Harcourt, a few hours after the second peace accord was signed,
leaving two persons injured.
“I do hope this is not a confirmation of
the information reaching my party that some notorious security agents
have been deployed to Port Harcourt to restrict the movement of Gov.
Amaechi.”
Buhari also observed that in Ondo State,
a serving APC member of the House of Representatives, Eniolorunda
Omosule, was arrested and detained by the police for no reason other
than to keep him away until after elections.
He also said there were reports of an
alleged meeting in Ibadan between the Commissioners of Police in the
South-west and PDP officials.
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