 Ahead of the general elections coming up on February 25 and March 11, leaders of 14 political parties in Bios' state have committed themselves to a peace accord to obey INEC guidelines and also promote peaceful pose across the state. They were made to take an oath on behalf of themselves and candidates of their parties, before heads of security agencies, traditional rulers, INEC and other stakeholders in Yenugua, the state's capital. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC wants them to also sensitize their supporters on the need for peaceful elections in the state. Your presence here today to participate in the exercise should not be seen as a mere window dressing in order to fulfill all righteousness. There should be a clear message to your supporters to also align with the objectives of their accord. It is also to sign is also a sign of commitment to take responsibility as situation demands. So my prayer and wish is you will as much as possible try and follow the guidelines by INEC and the guidelines by the constitution of Nigeria and ensure that you keep up to the terms of this accord. No violence, no violence whatsoever. Without leaders, it's what we tell our followers they do. Please, please, please. Let us not instigate violence. It's a plea that I'm making. In my experience for the 15 months I've been here, I see my staff as peaceful. The chairman of some of the political parties also spoke to a journalist and stressed the need for punitive measures against offenders. And I want to call on all politicians to abide by this peace accord, our just side. I wish you'll enjoy our supporters, our party faithfuls to campaign peacefully and do the election peacefully so that at the end of the day that we will have a credible and transparent election. That PDPSC parties we have been peaceful. We always advise all other parties to emulate what we have been doing over the years because we conduct ourselves, tell our supporters to go peacefully to the polling booths, cast their votes, stay and defend it. That is all we have been doing. So we have never been associated with any violence in terms of election in these states, which the INEC and all other institutions can attest to that. 2019 in government election, a particular local government before the election where we are shooting and killing and even before then we signed a similar thing like this peace accord. But nothing is being done. And here again we are signing on that peace accord again. This sign of peace accord, is it for formality? Both of our names, this peace accord. What are the finalities? Nothing of choice has been mentioned in regards to this peace accord. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.