APC Explained Why it Shunned The Peace Parley

Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has explained why it shunned the peace parley organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for Political Parties.

Speaking in an interview, the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Chris Finebone, said the party was not interested in participating in an exercise that would not be implemented.

He stated that some political parties, including the APC and the PDP had signed a peace pact before the March 2016 rerun election in the state, which was still marred by violence.

INEC had on Monday organised a meeting with political parties, where only eleven parties turned up to sign a pact, and promised that the yet-to-be-scheduled rerun election would be without violence.

But while the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and ten other political parties attended the meeting, the state APC and eleven others were absent at the forum.