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APC accuses Jonathan of violating peace pact
 
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Wed, 21 Jan 2015   ||   Nigeria,
 

The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of violating the non-violence pact which he signed with other presidential candidates in Abuja last week.

Reacting to an advert sponsored by the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose , the party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the advert was “incendiary, insensitive, reckless and provocative and betrayed the pact.”

The APC said, “But for our party’s ceaseless enlightenment of our members and supporters to shun violence of any kind even when provoked, and the peaceful disposition of the APC as a party, one can only imagine what could have happened in the wake of this demonic advert, laced with ethnic put down and a morally-repugnant death wish for a fellow being.

“We are, therefore, calling on all those who witnessed the signing of the pact, especially a former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, and a former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Emeka Anyaoku, to take note of this very serious breach of the agreement and urgently call President Jonathan and his party to order.”

The party warned that it would hold Jonathan and his party responsible if anything untoward happened to the APC presidential candidate.

The APC said the provocative advert was not the first time that the President and his supporters broke the Abuja Peace Accord.

It said, “Two days after the pact was signed, our party’s office at Ngo community in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State was bombed, the second of such incident in the state, by PDP thugs. Then our party members were attacked severally in Sokoto by PDP thugs aided and abetted by the police, while the PDP Governor of Kaduna State, Mukhtar Yero, has been inciting violence against the opposition in his state.”

It said the fact that the perpetrators of those incidents got away with their actions without any censure from the President showed the level of desperation by the President and his party to win next month’s polls.

 

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