Jonathan, Buhari to hold joint broadcast against election violence

If ongoing efforts by the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, pull through, Nigerians are expected to witness President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, holding a joint broadcast where they would condemn election violence.

Chairman of the commission, Chidi Odinkalu, who revealed this, said the idea is for Jonathan and Buhari to jointly speak to Nigerians and tell them that the election is between brothers and not a war, and that the country belongs to every Nigerian.

Odinkalu, who was speaking at the presentation of a pre-election report and advisory on violence in the 2015 general election in Abuja on Friday, noted that an estimated 58 Nigerians had been killed in pre-election violence across 22 states in the country in the past 52 days.

“Let us change the messaging for this election and show we can do better,” he admonished Nigerians, stating that, “We want to show that Nigerians can hold elections without killing one another.”

...DailyPost