Plateau PDP and APC Gubernatorial Aspirants sign PEACE ACCORD at DREP CENTRE with INEC, Community and Religious Leaders as Witness

A STATEMENT BY RELIGIOUS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, POLITICAL PARTIES AND GOVERNORSHIP ASPIRANTS IN PLATEAU STATE ON JANUARY 14, 2015 AT THE DIALOGUE, RECONCILIATION AND PEACE (DREP) CENTRE

A meeting to solicit from the religious leaders, community leaders, political parties and governorship aspirants the need for a peaceful and mature conduct of ourselves and our followers in our exercise of political duties with the utmost decorum, respect for
the other and genuine patriotism was held at the Dialogue, Reconciliation and Peace Centre, Kwang, Jos.

Some of our elections in the past were characterized by violence and atrocities committed in the name of pursuing political interests. Enough of violence. We do not need to set Plateau State on fire because of political differences or aggressive pursuit of political power.

Democracy is about freedom of choice without molestation, intimidation or imposition and politics is about the common good, individual and collective progress and the fostering of our common patrimony.

Please let us stay on course and allow the campaigns, political exchanges and electoral process to be transparent, free and God-centered. We call on security agents, electoral officers, aspirants to political offices and the electorate to do only those things that are noble, just and honest.

We do solemnly swear and promise that we will not do anything to compromise the peace we are enjoying now in Plateau State and urge that politics of bitterness and hostile confrontation be replaced by politics of maturity through dialogue, peaceful campaigns and encounters.

God help Plateau State and Nigeria to go through the State and National elections this year without tears, violence or inter and intra political hostility.