Nigeria’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday threatened to pull out of in the national peace accord a few days to the presidential election. “Any situation that seeks to allow the APC to abuse the tenets of the accord will definitely force our party to review our signatory to the peace process,” PDP spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, said in a statement. The 2019 peace accord, convened by a former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, was to commit the political parties and candidates to a peaceful poll. Nigeria goes to poll on February 16 with the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) facing a stiff challenge from Atiku Abubakar of the PDP. Ologbondiyan said the party is considering to pull out of the peace accord because of the “threats and incendiary actions by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Buhari Presidency”.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2019 14:48 UTC