Less than 72 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan, the presidential candidate of the APC, General Muhammadu Buhari and other presidential candidate signed an accord to ensure violence-free elections, former Minister of Information; Chief Edwin Clark has said that the peace pact would not work because Buhari was likely not to keep to the terms of the agreement.

Clark, who spoke to newsmen on Friday when he granted audience to various Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign groups, however noted that it was a good thing that President Jonathan made himself available to sign the accord.

According to the South-South leader, Buhari could not be trusted to keep to the agreement in view of his antecedent, including his refusal, when invited, to appear before the defunct Oputa Panel set up to advance the course of peace in the country.

Clark, who said the accord did not mean anything to him, said he would however be glad if it could engender the necessary peace before, during and after the elections.

He noted that the accord was not necessary, blaming its existence on what he said, was the desperation of some people whom he said believed that power belongs to them.

Clark also noted the United States of America's recent statement that the increased Boko Haram attacks in the North East may likely be connected to the impending elections, saying that if Buhari said he could stop the insurgents, he may not be far from the truth because they obey him.

According to Clark, "If Buhari comes and it (insurgency) stops, it is because they control it, they listen to him. They started it; they know how Boko Haram started. It is easier for them to stop it.

"But Jonathan is working on it. He has toured the area but they have found meaning to it. They are saying it is too late. Nigeria belongs to all of us and together we can salvage it.

On the constant criticisms of Jonathan by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, the elder statesman said that he was of the view that Obasanjo should be expelled from the PDP because he was working with the opposition to bring down Jonathan.

He observed that Obasanjo was defending Buhari over the N25billion unaccounted for at the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) headed by Buhari because Obasanjo wanted Jonathan to lose election.

According to him, "Obasanjo is defending him because he wants APC to win. How much corruption have you found in Jonathan that you are calling him corrupt?"
Describing the APC presidential candidate as "a fundamentalist," Clark observed that Muslims and Christians must live together in the country to hasten its development.

"What is wrong with PDP? That man (Obasanjo) should not be allowed to be in the party. You beg him all the time; he has made up his mind. He gathered APC women to abuse President Jonathan.

"If a man you dissolved his committee (PTF) and he could not account for N25 billion and you are now saying that man is not corrupt. Buhari and Obasanjo are the same. They are in a marriage of convenience just to remove Jonathan", he alleged.

"Because Obasanjo is corrupt, he doesn't know what the definition of corruption is. There is big trouble in this country when corrupt people call others corrupt", he said.

He also spoke about Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal who he said had informed him (Clark) how he escaped arrest when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was probing alleged corruption within the leadership of House, Clark said he had no confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as he alleged that the chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega was biased against the return of President Jonathan to office.

"How can a university professor be so biased and does not want Jonathan to come back? It is so disgraceful that he has allowed ethnicity and religion to take control of him,"

He accused the INEC boss of juggling voters’ number and attempting to create 30,000 polling units with fake voting population as part of his scheme to ensure President Jonathan was not re-elected.