National Peace Committee Holds Meeting With Buhari
Fatimah Abdullahi
National Peace Committee for the 2015 General Elections, headed by former Head of State General Abdusalami Abubakar (rtd), on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
At the meeting held inside the Presidential Villa, talks were focused on how to sustain the peace that Nigeria had got after the general election.
Addressing reporters after the meeting, which lasted for about an hour, the catholic Bishop of Sokoto State, Bishop Matthew Kukah, said the peace committee had a role to still nurture the peace which Nigeria had got following the general elections.
Present at the meeting were General Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and President of the Christian Association of Nigeria Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor.
Also in attendance were Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Cardinal John Onaiyekan, former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mrs Priscilla Kuye and Senator Ben Obi.
The committee had brokered the signing of the peace accords between President Buhari and his predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, ahead of the March 28 presidential poll.
