* Atiku, Obi, Tinubu To Sign Peace Accord Tomorrow

Political fireworks and intense brickbats are expected to com­mence nationwide today as the Independent National Elector­al Commission (INEC) lifts the ban on campaigns for the 2023 general election, seen as a three-horse presidential race.

With the development, po­litical parties and their can­didates can now begin their campaigns, canvassing for votes from the electorate, who will determine the new set of leaders for the country begin­ning from May 29, 2023.

Analysts say the struggling Nigeria’s economy and rising insecurity will top campaign issues for the top presidential candidates for next February’s election in an open race to re­place President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to the timetable by the electoral commission, campaigns for Presidential and National Assembly elections will begin today, September 28, 2022, and end on February 23, 2023, while that of gover­norship and state Houses of Assembly will commence on October 12, 2022, and end on March 9, 2023.

The commission also warned the 18 registered polit­ical parties fielding candidates for the 2023 general election against any form of abusive language or hate speech capa­ble of hampering the success of the elections.

It further reminded the po­litical stakeholders that their message or slogan must not be tainted with abusive language directly or indirectly likely to injure religious, ethnic, tribal or sectional feelings.

Also, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate ban of the use of “quasi-security outfits” like Amotekun, Ebube Agu, Hisbah or others estab­lished by various state govern­ments and local communities operating under different no­menclatures, structures, and orientations at electioneering campaigns, saying they have no legal roles under the Elec­toral Act.

Although 18 political parties have fielded presidential candi­dates and their running mates for the 2023 presidential elec­tion, it is expected to be a three-horse race between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) which has Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as candidate; Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Dem­ocratic Party (PDP), and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP).

Also in order to promote a peaceful electioneering cam­paign, the National Peace Com­mittee headed by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, will on Thursday meet with the presidential candidates in Abuja where they will sign a Peace Pact.

The first Peace Accord which will hold at the Inter­national Conference Centre, Abuja, is to commit all politi­cal parties, presidential candi­dates and their spokespersons to peaceful political campaigns and rallies devoid of violence, incitement and personal in­sults, but defined by issues at the heart of national develop­ment and progress.

The committee added that the second Peace Accord will come up shortly before the elections, and it is intended to commit candidates to accept the outcome of the votes as long as it is adjudged to be free, fair and credible.

In a recently released report, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) predicted that the 2023 elections will be the most challenging to con­duct in Nigeria, saying the raging insecurity, INEC’s level of preparedness and conduct of presidential candidates will shape the outcome of the polls.

https://independent.ng/political-fireworks-begin-in-three-horse-presidential-race/

Peter Obi

Okay...


So, if Peter Obi had not seen through the gross deceit and dirty internal politics of PDP, and had not moved to Labour Party, we would have been left with a bullion-van Northern slave and an institutional thief?

Everyday when I wake, I feel very invigorated knowing that Peter Obi is not only in this race, but has also become the choice of sane Nigerians.

Can you imagine having Tinubu the drug-pushing man as your president without vomiting? I can't.

Good luck to them

Good for them

Good luck to Peter Gregory Obi.

Wow

Except by crook of the old order.
P O all the way

I don't trust INEC

yinkus6750:
Except by crook of the old order.
P O all the way

Good

Authority1o1:
Okay...


So, if Peter Obi had not seen through the gross deceit and dirty internal politics of PDP, and had not moved to Labour Party, we would have been left with a bullion-van Northern slave and an institutional thief?

Everyday when I wake, I feel very invigorated knowing that Peter Obi is not only in this race, but has also become the choice of sane Nigerians.

Can you imagine having Tinubu the drug-pushing man as your president without vomiting? I can't.

we ain’t surprised any longer

What God can’t do doesn’t exist
What igbos can’t hate doesn’t exist