2019: Duke Signs Peace Accord Says It’ll Checkmate Violence

Presidential candidate of Social Democratic Party, SDP,Donald Duke, yesterday, signed the 2019 peace accord at the Kukah Centre, Abuja.
Duke, who had stayed away from signing the agreement with the National Peace Committee, being chaired by the former Head of State, Abdulsalam Abubakar, on Tuesday, along with President Mubammadu Buhari and candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, hailed the process.
Speaking shortly after signing the agreement, the former Cross River State governor said the process would assist in no small measures in checkmating electoral violence at during the poll.
He said:”The peace accord is necessary. It is one of the fundamental thing to do. You can’t have elections of violence. INEC must do the right thing by increasing voter’s education.
“INEC should live up to its responsibility by sanctioning candidates involved in vote buying so that everybody will fall in line.
Until we do that people will continue to do whatever they like.” The politician, however, said since the county