Seventeen out of 18 political parties contesting the September 21, 2024 Edo State governorship election have signed a peace accord ahead of the election.
Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman Anthony Aziegbemi and the partys candidate, Asue Ighodalo, who were present during the signing of the Peace Accord, declined to sign.
Aziegbemi told newsmen that they were declining because 10 members of the party were currently being detained by the police in Abuja.
We are here to register our protest before the peace committee and to say that the PDP will not sign peace accord when 10 of our members have been arrested and detained by the police in Abuja, he said.
It would be recalled that the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, on Wednesday during the stakeholders meeting, said he was not aware that PDP members were arrested in the state.
