The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) seeks the National Peace Committee to review the Peace Accord signed by candidates to ensure a safer Nigerian Democracy.
NNPP made the call in its reaction to the attacks on the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s Presidential campaign convoy in Borno State, North-Western Nigeria. The party stated this in a press release through its National Publicity Secretary, Agbo Major, in Abuja. It also commiserates with victims of the attack and urges politicians to imbibe issue-based politics and resist thuggery and garrison politics.
Major said, “NNPP strongly condemns the attack on the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential campaign convoy in Maiduguri, Borno State, on November 9, 2022, in which 70 persons were injured and several vehicles damaged. It is outrageous, barbaric, and repulsive and intended to undermine the nation’s emerging democracy ahead of the crucial 2023 general election that will redefine and redirect the country’s destiny.
“NNPP calls on all lovers of constitutional rule to condemn and resist this cowardly act by anti-democratic forces that want to impose the rule of might and thuggery in place of our cherished rule of law, tolerance and unity in diversity. This latest attack on the foundations of the nation’s frail democracy shows the desperation and intolerance of opposition political parties,” Major stated.
Major further confirmed that the NNPP had been a victim of the same circumstance, hence his call for the review of the peace accord. “In August this year, our great party, the NNPP, was a victim of this political intolerance and executive recklessness in the state. NNPP demands a stop to this national embarrassment in what ought to be a showcase of democracy which the elections symbolise.
“The attacks happened despite the Peace Accord signed by presidential candidates and national chairmen of all the 18 registered political parties on September 28, 2022, in Abuja, organised by the General Abdulsami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee in which political parties and their presidential candidates resolved to carry out civil, decent and issue-based campaigns as well as promote respect and tolerance of differences.
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“NNPP urges the National Peace Committee to intervene urgently by convening an emergency meeting of the leaders of political parties and their presidential candidates to review the peace accord in view of this glaring violation that threats the nation’s democracy and then chart the way forward to save our constitutional rule,” Major emphasised.
The party called on Nigerians to vote for NNPP candidates in the upcoming elections to build a strong, virile, united, progressive, fair, and decent democratic nation.
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