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JONATHAN, BUHARI SIGN ANOTHER PEACE ACCORD

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The top
contenders in the forthcoming March 28 Presidential election, President
Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Genenral Muhammadu
Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have signed another peace accord
in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
In what has
been called a peace meeting, the two candidates met and signed sign another
agreement, following the peace pact they both signed alongside other
presidential candidates in January.
 The meeting
was brokered by the National Peace Committee for the 2015 General Elections,
led by retired Gen. Abdusalami Abdusalami, and is aimed at extracting
commitment from the leading candidates that the forthcoming elections will be
violence-free. They were accompanied to the meeting by the national chairmen of
their parties.

The
presidential candidates of all the political parties in Nigeria had signed an
accord to prevent electoral violence before, during and after the February 14
elections. The previous
peace meeting had in attendance President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP, General
Muhammadu Buhari of the APC and Professor Oluremi Sonaiya of the KOWA Party
amongst others. A former
Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr Kofi Annan, was also at the January
14 event.
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