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Presidency fumes, accuses PDP of violating peace accord

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The claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that President Muhammadu Buhari’s family is involved in corruption has got the Presidency fuming.

According to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, the allegation by the PDP is a violation of the peace accord that all political parties and candidates signed ahead of the general elections.

The PDP had recently alleged that family members of President Buhari acquired substantial shares in both 9 Mobile and Keystone Bank Plc worth over N1 trillion.

But Shehu in a statement said PDP by bringing the family members of Buhari into its campaigns and accusing them of corruption without providing evidence, had breached the terms of the peace agreement.

It then called om the National Peace Committee (NPC), which saw to the signing of the peace agreement last December in Abuja to take note of the action of the opposition party.

NPC is chaired by a former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar; while Bishop Matthew Kukah; and other eminent Nigerians are members.

Shehu argued that the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation had resorted to character assassination and the use of inflammatory language in its campaigns in disregard to the terms of the peace agreement.

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“Dragging the President’s family members into the campaign and accusing them of wrongdoing without producing evidence amounts to an act of malice.

“Instead of concentrating their efforts on persuading Nigerians on why they should be trusted to rule again after 16 years of failure, the PDP presidential campaign organisation is seeking to divert public attention from the large-scale corruption and havoc it wreaked on the country during its 16 years of misrule,” Shehu said.

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