The campaign organisation of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given reasons he has not yet signed the Peace Accord aimed at encouraging the peaceful conduct of the election.
The leadership of the National Peace Committee (NPC) expects that 46 days to the presidential poll, which is scheduled to be held on the 25th of February, all contending parties should have signed off the document.
The committee revealed that the space allotted to the APC presidential candidate to sign remains empty.
A member of the NPC, Rev. Fr. Atta Barkindo, told THISDAY on Monday that the committee as a matter rule does not allow vice presidential candidates or party chairmen to sign on behalf the presidential candidates.
According to the clergyman, all the candidates that have so far signed the peace agreement did so in person, not through any representation.
He stated categorically that the “APC presidential candidate didn’t sign our peace accord. We don’t allow proxy.”
Barkindo, however, said that the doors of the NPC were still open, adding that any candidate who is interested can come to their office and sign the document.
But speaking on the same topic, Tinubu’s Media spokesman, Tunde Rahman, said the former Lagos State governor was away when the Peace Accord was signed.