{"id":99815,"date":"2022-09-29T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T18:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99815"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T18:48:53","slug":"peace-accord-commitment-to-peaceful-issue-based-election-must-resonate-beyond-parties-prof-yakubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/peace-accord-commitment-to-peaceful-issue-based-election-must-resonate-beyond-parties-prof-yakubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Accord: Commitment to peaceful, issue-based election must resonate beyond parties &#8211; Prof. Yakubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was absent on Thursday when the presidential candidates of other political parties signed a peace accord ahead of the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu was represented by his running mate, Kashim Shettima, at the event, which took place at the International Conference Centre (ICC) Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Major contenders in the presidential race, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, were all present.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The peace accord was organised by the National Peace Committee headed by former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah.\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu while addressing the leaders and\u00a0 candidates of political parties said it was not enough to simply sign the Peace Accord what is more important is to abide by its letter and spirit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Prof Yakubu advised them to pass the message to their candidates, members and supporters across the country for electoral compliance.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He explained that the 2023 general election will be conducted for one thousand four hundred ninety one constituencies nationwide made up of one Presidential constituency, twenty eight Governorship elections, 109 senatorial Districts , 360 Federal\u00a0 constituencies\u00a0 and 993 state Assembly constituencies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The INEC chairman maintained every election was important, therefore the commitment to peaceful and issue-based electioneering campaign should resonate beyond the 18 political party Chairmen and presidential candidates.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was absent on Thursday when the presidential candidates of other political parties signed a peace accord ahead of the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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