Jonathan, Buhari sign Peace Pact on 2015 Polls.

GEJ & GMB Share Warm Embrace.


In a bid to avoid violence ahead of the 2015 general
elections, President Goodluck Jonathan and General
Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja signed a political
accord urging supporters to shun attacks.
Jonathan who is the presidential candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Buhari, the
presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) met in Abuja at an all political
stakeholders national workshop on violence-free
elections in 2015 to sign the undertaking.
Jonathan in his statements urged Politicians to desist
from making utterances that will heat up the polity.
“We must avoid provocative statements, we must
avoid threatening ourselves”. He also accused
Religious leaders of instigating their followers in the
past to be confrontational. The President added that
indirect provocative statements by religious leaders
causes violence and pleaded with the Nigerian media
and the various institutions to conduct themselves
to ..
“The struggle to rule is not the struggle to conquer,
whenever you win an election you are the leader of
the nation”. Jonnathan said. He pleaded that the
politics of violence must stop to protect the nation..
He promised to strengthen the security agencies and
asked the Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission to make sure every nigerian has
an opportunity to vote to avoid violence.
“We must come up with programs and policies that
confirm with our laws to ensure we would not have
these problems again” Jonathan noted.
Special Adviser to the President on Inter-Party Affairs
Senator Ben Obi at the Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton
Hotel and Towers Abuja, had said, “The workshop
seeks to commit all Presidential Candidates and their
respective political parties to a political accord that
will be signed during the workshop on non–violence
in the 2015 elections.
“As a post-workshop follow-up, an All Political
Stakeholders Committee on violence-free election
constituted to observe and monitor compliance to the
agreement that will be signed at the workshop”.
The workshop was declared open by President
Jonathan and attended by all the presidential
candidates in the 2015 general elections, including All
Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, Kofi
Annan who chaired the vent amongst others.
Event chaired by former Secretary- General of the
Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku and Dr. Kofi
Annan is a follow-up of the All-political Parties and
Stakeholders’ Summit in Abuja convened by the
office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) on June
12, 2014.
High point of the event was the warm embrace of the
major contenders ahead of the elections … Goodluck
Jonathan and Mohammadu Buhari [Pictured] above.