Oby Ezekwesili has spoken against thuggery, military intimidation and harassment of voters in the 2019 elections.
She pointed out that the absence of thuggery and military intimidation would be part of the conditions that would ascertain a violence-free poll.
The forum was organised by Presidential Summit Centre in collaboration with Forum of Presidential Candidates towards a peaceful conduct of elections.
Ezekwesili begged other presidential candidates to key into the peace accord signed and work towards achieving it.
”You know there is a peace accord. In our own case, we signed, not because it is a ceremony but because we believe in it,” she said.
Ezekwesili also named signing of amended electoral bill and non-interference of military personnel at the polls as conditions for violence free elections.
She therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari to adhere to the court of public opinion and address rampant electoral issues ahead of the poll.
She called on the President to sign the amended 2018 Electoral Bill into law.
According to her, President Buhari should display an examplary leadership quality that will ensure the election does not end up taking Nigeria and Nigerians down.
She urged the National Assembly to make sure the people have those rules that would enable the country to have electoral integrity.
“We also need to have the rules of the game as far as the military structures are concerned to ensure that they are not in anyway complicit in election malpractice.
“We should therefore come together to agree on the rules of the game as far as the use of military is concerned.
”We don’t want a situation where the military will carry out a coup from the back door. None of us will accept that,” she said.
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