{"id":13776,"date":"2018-12-11T18:29:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2018-12-11T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:29:02","slug":"atiku-ezekwesili-duke-others-absent-apeace-accord-signing-ceremony-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13776","title":{"rendered":"Atiku, Ezekwesili, Duke others absent aPeace Accord signing ceremony t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Uche Secondus, the chairman of his party were conspicuously absent at a ceremony to sign a Peace Accord, ahead of the 2019 elections.<br \/>\nHowever, President Muhammadu Buhari attended the event and signed the accord at 4.27pm, along with Adams Oshiomhole, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress.<br \/>\nThe event held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.<br \/>\nSome reports quoted Atiku\u2019s media spokesperson as claiming that the PDP candidate was not aware of the event.<br \/>\nHe was not only one present, according to Daily Trust. Other key presidential candidates that were absent include Mr. Donald Duke \u2013 Social Democratic Party, (SDP), Mr. Omoyele Sowore \u2013 African Action Congress (AAC) and Mrs Oby Ezekwesili \u2013 Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN).<br \/>\nThe Peace Accord, which was also signed by all presidential candidates before the 2015 election, is the brainchild of former head of state, Abdusalami Abubakar.<br \/>\nThe accord is an undertaking by all the presidential candidates to ensure peaceful and rancour free campaigns before, during and after the 2019 general elections.<br \/>\nThe candidates are also expected to avoid hate speech, fake news or any act capable of causing socio-political unrest in the country.<br \/>\nBy <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Uche Secondus, the chairman of his party were conspicuously absent at a ceremony to sign a Peace Accord, ahead of the 2019 elections. However, President Muhammadu Buhari attended the event and signed the accord at 4.27pm, along with Adams Oshiomhole, the chairman of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}