Edo guber: Ighodalo gives condition to sign Peace Accord

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governor of Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, has pledged that his party will sign a peace pact with other political parties as soon as the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Government fulfill all requirements. The election is scheduled for September 21.

In an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Ighodalo made this commitment while lamenting the fact that some PDP members had been taken into custody and kept out of court.

As soon as his followers are free, the governorship candidate claims that his camp will not think twice about signing the peace agreement that the other parties to the election have already signed.

“We had several conditions, most of which have now been met with one left. Many of our guys have been held unjustly.

“We think if you hold guys, you charge them or let them go on bail. So, either they charge all our guys or let them go on bail. Once that is achieved we will sign the peace accord,” Ighodalo said.

He cited lack of level playing ground as the major reason his party declined to sign the peace accord, but acknowledged that the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has now assured the party of neutrality, maintaining that his camp preaches non-violence and that will not change any time.

DAILY POST recalls that on Thursday, all political parties participating in the Edo election signed a peace accord to shun violence, but the PDP declined to participate in what has become a pre-election ritual in Nigeria’s electoral space.

Former Head of State, General Adulsalami Abubakar, who is the head of the Peace Committee, had said that PDP chieftain and outgoing governor (Obaseki) said the party won’t sign the peace pact over some allegations levelled against the police.

PDP Chairman in the state, Tony Aziegbemi, also stormed out of the peace pact venue in protest on Thursday.

He told journalists on his way out that a member of his party who doubles as Esan West Local Government Area Chairman, Collins Aigbogu, was picked up by the police days ago and had not been released.

Tony Aziegbemi, the state chairman of the PDP, also bailed out of the peace accord site on Thursday in protest.

As he was leaving, he informed reporters that Collins Aigbogu, the chairman of the Esan West Local Government Area and a member of his party, had been arrested by the police a few days prior and had not yet been released.

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