Ahead of the Saturday’s FCT area council elections, the leadership and candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and 12 other political parties participating in election have signed a peace accord.
The party leaders and their candidates, who performed the ceremony at the enlarged stakeholders meeting on the 2022 FCT area councils’ elections on Monday in Abuja, pledged to ensure peaceful, credible and hitch-free elections.
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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Comission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said that sensitive materials for the election will be delivered by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the commission’s FCT Office in Garki, Abuja tomorrow.
He said party agents, observers and the media will be invited to inspect the materials before they will be moved to the area councils on the same day, adding that all non-sensitive materials have already been delivered to the area councils.
Also speaking, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Usman Alkali-Baba, said the Force will deploy tactical units drawn from the Mobile Police Force, Special Forces, Counter Terrorism and senior officers from the Force Headquarter to provide security and monitor the election.
Speaking earlier, the FCT Minister, Mohammed Musa Bello, assured that the FCT administration would support INEC and other stakeholders to ensure free, fair and credible elections in the territory.
