EKO HOT BLOG reports that candidates for Saturday’s Anambra governorship election have signed a peace accord in Awka, the state captial.
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, was present at the ceremony, which was facilitated by the National Peace Committee (NPC).
The NPC is chaired by a former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
Ifeanyi Uba of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) were among the signees on Thursday.
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Others were Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party, Godwin Maduka of the Accord Party (AP), Etiaba Chukwuogo of the Action Alliance (AA), Nwankwo Chidozie of the African Action Congress (AAC), Onyejegbu Okwudili of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Ohajimkpo Emeka of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ezenwafor Victor of the National Rescue Movement (NRM), Nnamdi Nwawuo of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP), Uzo Godwin of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and Okonkwo Francis of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
Anambra, alongside other states in the South-East, has witnessed several ‘gunmen’ attacks, casting doubts on the feasiblity of the elections.
The outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has also reportedly threatened the sanctity of the election if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is not released from detention.
But the Federal Government has beefed up security in the state, assuring voters of their safety when they come out to exercise their civic duty on Saturday November 6, 2021.
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