The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has faulted the idea of signing peace pacts ahead of the 2023 presidential election, querying whether Nigeria and the candidates are at war.
Sowore expressed his reservations regarding what has become a ritual ahead of elections, on Thursday, while featuring on Arise TV ‘Morning Show’. He said the signing of peace accords signifies that the country is at war.
Sowore, who was reacting to the statement credited to former Head of State and Chairman, National Peace Committee, Abdulsalami Abubakar, that politicians contesting the 2023 general election had to sign a peace pact, however, noted he was not against the peace accord, nothing he would sign it to show the people that he subscribed to peace.
He said, “I don’t know why we’re signing this peace accord when we are not at war. This signifies that Nigeria is at war.
Elections are a war in this country.”
“For the sake of symbolism of this, I will show up there, and sign whatever they want so that the people can understand that I subscribe to peace during the election and after the election,” he added.