The General Abdulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee (NPC) has called on candidates to rein in their spokesmen and supporters to make electioneering campaigns violent-free.
Expressing concern over the wave of violence at political rallies, the NPC decried the use of intemperate language, intimidation and outright violence by party supporters.
The NPC said the development, if not curtailed, could undermine the peace accord signed by all presidential candidates at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja, on September 28.
The NPC’s concerns were contained in a statement issued in Abuja.
It came on a day the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, accused politicians and political actors of heating the polity with their refusal to play by the rules.
