The National Peace Committee, led by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has said that the peace accord signed by political parties and candidates ahead of the 2023 general elections prevented an outbreak of violence.
The committee said it believed that the aim of the peace accord was realised because parties aggrieved with the outcome of the elections did not resort to violence but went to court to ventilate their grievances.
The Head of the NPC Secretariat and Executive Director of the Kukah Centre, Reverend Father Atta Barkindo, stated this in Abuja at the public presentation of the NPC Preliminary Evaluation Report.
Barkindo, while addressing journalists, said, people abided by the terms of the accord because at the end of the day when the results were announced, there was no widespread violence.
He said contrary to expectations from some quarters, the NPC had no constitutional powers to sanction those who violated the peace accord.
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