The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has said that President Bola Tinubu didn’t signal a peace accord when he was a presidential candidate in 2023.
Kukah, one of many conveners of the Nationwide Peace Committee headed by former Head of State Common Abdulsalami Abubakar, made this recognized on Sunday in Benin Metropolis throughout the Edo Election Safety Townhall.
In response to the clergyman, the committee can’t drive any presidential candidate to signal the peace pact, which has change into an electoral ritual within the final decade.
Kukah asserted that the failure of political events and their candidates to signal the peace accord sends a fallacious sign to Nigerians, which the opposition can simply exploit.
He mentioned, “The Nationwide Peace Committee, what we do is just not within the Electoral Act, it’s not regulation; it’s ethical. You may’t compel individuals to fall in love or love their neighbour.
“If you happen to return to the 2019 election, the presidential candidate for the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was not there to signal the Peace Accord. And, after all, the opposition went to city, which is what it should be, and the subsequent day, he (Atiku) turned as much as signal.
“What can be very fascinating is that the present president, when he was a presidential candidate, didn’t signal; it wasn’t our fault that the political opposition didn’t reap the benefits of it.
“It’s a pity, however we aren’t going to take anyone to court docket for not signing the Peace Accord. The one factor it does to you as a candidate is that it sends a fallacious sign which will be very simply exploited by the opposition.”
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