The vice presidential candidate of Labour Party, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has raised an alarm over what he described as the violation of the Peace Accord signed by political parties ahead of the 2023 elections.
This is as he also stressed that orchestrated attempts by opponents to denigrate the candidacy of the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, using false claims and attacks on his supporters will fail.
Datti-Ahmed stated this at a press conference, in Abuja, on Thursday.
According to him, presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, had continued to use campaign events to spew invectives and spread falsehoods about Obi.
In his words, “In the squabble for second and third positions, some erstwhile major political parties appear to have crossed the boundaries of decency to transgress our peaceful activities and our focus on political schedules.
“On the 29th September 2022, an eminent group of statesmen under the aegis of the National Peace Committee, brought together all the Presidential Candidates to sign a Peace Accord, which represents an agreed code of conduct for the 2023 election.
“It is unfortunate that despite the noble objectives of this initiative, disinformation and misinformation about the Labour Party and its candidates have become fashionable in this election season.
“Recently, for example there was a false narrative been spread nationwide that Mr Peter Obi is against the production of oil in the north; nothing could be farther from the truth.
“Peter Obi has repeatedly stated at various local and international fora that the greatest physical asset of Nigeria is the vast rich land in the North, and declared his commitment as a visionary transformative leader to exploit same for the overwhelming benefit of the Nigerian people.
“To the architect of ‘’consumption to production’, oil in the North means more revenue for development, more jobs and opportunities.
“Earlier attempts to discredit the Obi’s candidacy through fabricated allegations of demolition of mosques, internal deportation of Northerners, issuance of ID cards to northerners, and ethnic hostilities were all conclusively proven to be false and without basis.“
