- Safiu Kehinde
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declined the signing of peace accord ahead of the Edo State governorship election.
This was announced by former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, at the venue of the signing of the peace accord in Benin on Thursday.
According to him, the PDP said it would only sign the peace accord if certain conditions are met.
“I met the governor yesterday and he told me the PDP are not going to sign this peace accord,” he said.
“They had made some observations and I was expecting the chairman of the PDP to come and make that statement, having waited for him this long he chose to announce that the PDP said they are not going to sign and they have got some conditionalities.
“They said that after these conditionalities have been met, they will come to Abuja and sign.” Abdusalam said.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the PDP in the state was not at the venue to give details about why the party refused to sign the accord.
However, Governor Godwin Obaseki disclosed on Wednesday his party, the PDP, might not sign the accord.
The governor spoke about the likelihood of this when he met with members of the National Peace Committee.
Although the PDP and its candidate for the election, Mr Asue Ighodalo, did not sign, other parties including the the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Mr Monday Okpebholo and the Labour Party’s candidate, Olumide Akpata, signed the accord.
Recall that prior to their eventual signing, the All Progressive Congress (APC) had on Tuesday refuted the peace accord as they declared their refusal to sign it on the ground that they want justice for the unprovoked attacks allegedly launched at them during their campaign