The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, on Wednesday joined Atiku Abubakar to sign the 2019 General Elections Peace accord.
Speaking after the signing the agreement in Abuja, Ezekwesili called on President Buhari to sign the 2018 Electoral Amendment Bill without delay.
She said the President could rush to sign the peace accord, but refused to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018.
“The first thing that the President needs to do in order to build trust amongst all candidates is to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018 into an Act.
“Because he has not done that, I find it very strange that he quickly was at the event yesterday (Tuesday) to sign the peace accord.
“It is contradictory. He needs to be exemplary in all the things that he does. He cannot confuse the system by taking one measure that mills out another measure. That is not the way to go,” Ezekwesili said.
On why she did not sign the agreement on Tuesday, Ezekwesili said there was no communication to her and could not have been at an event where she had no communication.
Speaking earlier, Kukah apologised for the inability of some candidates to sign the agreement, on Tuesday.
Kukah, however, said the National Peace Committee had at its disposal, documentary evidence of invitation extended to all candidates.
“Our doors are open and we are really very sorry for whatever may have happened, but we have documentary evidence that we did send out our communication to the offices of all the 91 political parties and we have evidence that our correspondence s were received,” Kukah said.
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