sitemaster The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, Obiageli Ezekwesiele of the African Congress Party and Donald Duke of the Social Democratic Party were among the high profile absentees at the signing of a peace pact for 2019 presidential candidates in Abuja.
It was not immediately clear why the high profile gladiators shunned the meeting but the camp of the Atiku Abubakar and the PDP separately told PREMIUM TIMES they were not aware of the event, which began at 3:00 p.m., and promised to make urgent findings and revert.
Mr Buhari arrived at the International Conference Centre to join other candidates in signing the peace agreement, which was drafted by the National Peace Committee.
Abdulsalam Abubakar, a former Nigerian military ruler, is the convener of the committee and the event.
A similar pact was signed by presidential candidates in 2015 and the committee was widely deemed crucial to the peaceful outcome of that contentious elections
While some observers claimed the absentee candidates played the ostrich on the event, others claimed they may have been deliberately sidelined
