{"id":5873,"date":"2019-02-14T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/02\/14\/nigeria-presidential-candidates-sign-peace-accord-ahead-of-vote\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:02:47","slug":"nigeria-presidential-candidates-sign-peace-accord-ahead-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/02\/14\/nigeria-presidential-candidates-sign-peace-accord-ahead-of-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria presidential candidates sign &lsquo;peace accord&rsquo; ahead of vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Quoting former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar said, \u201cMy ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian.\u201d Incumbent Muhammadu Buhari, vying for a second term, said, \u201cWe\u2019ll vote according to parties but in the end the only real party is Nigeria, our country.\u201d The two men joined other candidates on Wednesday to sign a \u00ab\u00a0peace accord\u00a0\u00bb calling on their respective supporters \u00ab\u00a0to refrain from violence or any acts that may in any way jeopardise our collective vision of a free, fair and credible election\u00a0\u00bb. They added, \u00ab\u00a0We also pledge to respect the outcome of free, fair and credible elections.\u00a0\u00bb Thursday marks the last day of Nigeria\u2019s presidential election campaign.  Some 84 million people are registered to vote on Saturday in presidential and parliamentary elections. Nigerian elections have been violent in the past, although the last one, in 2015, was relatively peaceful. In Lagos, FRANCE 24\u2019s Anna Cunningham reports.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar said, \u201cMy ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian.\u201d Incumbent Muhammadu Buhari, vying for a second term, said, \u201cWe\u2019ll vote according to parties but in the end the only real party is Nigeria, our country.\u201d The two men joined other candidates on Wednesday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}