The Absulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee was locked in a meeting with the Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it was learnt on Thursday.
The meeting, it was learnt, was convened following Atiku’s decision to go to court to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory.
The meeting, it was also learnt started around 6pm but there had been no information as per what the committee intended to ask Atiku and his party people to do.
What is clear to The DEFENDER is that the committee had been criticized for keeping silence over what was widely publicised without denial as perpetrated by Atiku in breach of the peace accord he signed as presidential candidate of the PDP with presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) President Muhammadu Buhari and others.
The peace committee’s silence thus put it in situation of distrust whereby many have said that the Abdulsalami-led group brought about the peace not for anything but hoping that President Buhari would lose the election.
The distrust rose with revelation that secretary of the committee administering the peace cord, Bishop Matthew Kukah, is an interested party as a member governing council of Atiku, PDP candidate’s American University of Nigeria (AUN).
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Buhari winner of the poll having scored 15, 191,847 votes against Atiku”s 11,262,978.
PDP team at the meeting include its Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, his running mate, Peter Obi, Senate President Bukola Saraki, PDP Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, and other PDP leaders are also in attendance.
The former military Head of State, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, it was also learnt, was joined by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, and other members of the National Peace Committee.
Others in the meeting include: Cardinal John Onaiyekan, and Rev. Fr Atta Barkindo of the NPC Secretariat.
