BREAKING: Atiku, Tinubu Meet After Nationwide Campaign, Details Emerge

BREAKING: Atiku, Tinubu Meet After Nationwide Campaign, Details Emerge

  • Following their nationwide presidential campaign, Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate and his PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, have met in Abuja
  • Tinubu and Atiku met alongside other presidential candidates at the conference centre in Abuja on Wednesday to sign the peace accord
  • The peace accord is voluntary for political parties, but it has always been used to forestall possible political violence

FCT, Abuja - Bola Tinubu, the torchbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and his strongest opposition, Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have met in Abuja.

According to The Punch, the duo are meeting along other presidential candidates ahead of the presidential election scheduled for Saturday, February 25, to sign the peace accord in Abuja on Wednesday, February 22.

Atiku Abubakar/Bola Tinubu/Peter Obi/Rabiu Kwankwaso/PDP/APC/NNPP/Labour Party/2023 Election
Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, others signed peace accord in Abuja Photo Credit: Atiku Abubakar, Bola Ahmed Tinubu
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The peace accord is voluntary and not a mandated exercise for political parties, but it has served as a mediation platform to forestall violence during election.

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No less than 18 presidential candidates are contesting to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari through the forthcoming election to lead the country for the next 4 years.

Also in attendance is President Muhammadu Buhari and former head of state Abdulsalami Abubakar and Bishop Kukah, who are the champions of the peace accord.

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Also in attendance is the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and former governor of Kano state, Rabiu Kwankwaso.

The meeting is coming after the presidential candidates rounded up with their nationwide campaigns for the election.

Fresh trouble for Atiku, Obi as Tinubu emerges most searched presidential candidate

Legit.ng earlier reported that Bola Tinubu, the presidential torchbearer of the APC, has emerged as the most searched presidential candidate in the 2023 election.

Google Analytics showed that Tinubu led Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso and others to be the most sought candidate on the search engine in the last 30 days.

From the analysis, Tinubu topped the list of searched candidates in 17 states, Atiku was second with searches in 10 states, and Peter Obi was third with searches in eight states.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng