By Akinwale Kasali

Omoyele Sowore, African Action Congress, AAC, Presidential Candidate, has said faulted the idea of Political Parties and its Presidential Candidates signing peace pact ahead of the 2023 presidential election.

The Activist said that the country is presently at war and signing a peace pact is a fiat.

Sowore said though he was not against the peace accord noting that he would sign it to show the people that he subscribed to peace.

The AAC Presidential Candidate made this lnown in an interview on Arise TV ‘Morning Show’, aired on Thursday.

Sowore’s statement is coming weeks after former Head of State and Chairman, National Peace Committee, Abdulsalami Abubakar, stated that politicians contesting the 2023 general election had to sign a peace pact.

The former President made this call on September 22, in Minna, Niger State, after a meeting with the committee members. He stated that during electioneering campaigns, politicians and their supporters created incitements which could endanger the country’s peace.

He said, “The pattern of public communication among political actors, their publicity agents, spokespersons, and media consultants has amplified the potential for personal attacks, insults, and incitement.”

Adding that the attacks by politicians and their supporters on their opponents, “has relegated to the background, the civility and decency in public discourse and debate. It has shifted focus away from issue-based campaigns, to consolidating identity politics and the politics of thuggery.”

The signing of peace commences Thursday, September 29 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

Reacting to the peace pact, Sowore 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,” he said.

“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.