Building is a complex and multifaceted endeavour, consisting of many different elements ranging from conflict prevention and early warning systems; mediation and conflict management; post-conflict reconstruction; disarmament, demobilization, and re-integration. It also covers the aspects of human rights and justice; the role of religious, political and community leaders, grassroots organizations, regional, continental and international bodies in ensuring a peaceful ecosystem.The National Peace Committee, which oversees the signing of Peace Accord by Presidential Candidates, and their party chairmen, chaired by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd), has been on this trajectory since 2015. It is an agreement that is meant to be binding on the presidential candidates and their party chairmen to ensure a peaceful and orderly conduct of their campaigns and rallies devoid of violence, intimidation, insults, incitements, misinformation and disinformation. According to General Abubakar, “It is to commit the presidential candidates and their party chairmen to accept the outcome of the elections as long as it is adjudged to be free, fair and credible. It is also to commit them to seek legitimate and peaceful means of addressing any concerns that may arise thereafter”. The accord is signed twice within each electoral cycle; first one, before the commencement of campaigns and the second, few days to the polls.In fact, the signing of Peace Accord that came into being in 2015, was an action taken because of the violent eruptions in some parts of Northern Nigeria, occasioned by the incumbent President Buhari’s consistent outcry of election rigging in 2003,2007, and 2011, which led to destruction of lives and properties.Since the emergence of this Gentleman Agreement, the electoral environment has remained more chaotic and violent except in 2015, when former President Goodluck Jonathan , on his own volition, yielded to the agreement, as a perfect gentleman, nationalist, democrat, and true patriotic Nigerian and conceded defeat to President Buhari – when he could have vehemently and flagrantly rejected, nullified, and trashed the election result into the dust bin, and match the consequences with all military and paramilitary might as Commander- In-Chief of the Armed Forces. But he chose the path of peace, noting that; his ambition is not worth the blood of any citizen. Posterity will profoundly be kind to him. The elections of 2019 and the current 2023 have witnessed the worst, with the 2023 adjudged by majority of Nigerians as a disaster. There were myriad cases of political killings, maiming, arson, ballot box snatching, gun-running, and all kinds of violence. All these electoral malfeasance happened after signing the ‘revered’ Peace Accord, administered by some select senior citizens that are adjudged honourable. They include, Abdulsalam Abubakar, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Aliko Dangote, etc. According to data from INEC, 50 attacks have been taken place on their offices between 2019 and 2022 across the country. Re-living the numerous and unabated political violence across the country, the Chairman of National Peace Committee, during the last signing of 2023 peace accord, opined, “As a nation, we have to put a stop to all these…”.But do they have all it takes to put a stop to political violence and politician’s rascality? Do they have the force of law? What are the terms of their engagement as a committee? In a recent interview with the Punch Newspaper, a legal silk, Prof. Mike Ozekhome (SAN) said “The accord signing may not have the force of law; but it certainly has moral authority and political suasion. To the extent, it is a necessary tool for checking the ever-recurring political brigandage and electoral thuggery, and freebooting. We need sanity in our political space and electoral process; otherwise, the entire election will be imperiled”. In a similar line of thought, Mr. Hamza Lawal, the Chief Executive of Connected Development (CODE), an Advocacy Group, noted that, “the essence of signing Agreements anywhere in the world are legally binding, provided they were not done under duress. Hence, accords signed in the past and even the one recently signed last week (referring to 2023 second accord) are binding on all signees, but whether the signees will abide by the same is a different conversation altogether” .Now, the conversation beckons! On Saturday, the 25th of February, 2023, Nigerian Citizens swarmed out en mass to cast their votes for their preferred presidential and national assembly candidates. That of the president was topmost on their mind because of the donkey years of ineptitude leadership that has brought tears and sorrow to the citizenry. They wanted a change and a desperate one at that. They did cast their vote; waited for their vote to be counted, uploaded onto the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and transmitted to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV) for public viewing but they got the shock of their generation as the over-promised and publicized real time on-line electronic facilities were said to have ‘technical hitches’ and unable to transmit. And the primordial manual system was quickly latched on to actualize the covenant of the evil stakeholders. The peoples’ choices were brazenly subverted and now the screams of anger have rented the Nigerian hemisphere.Divergent stratagems were deployed to execute this sordid orchestration; from cash crunch and fuel scarcity to late arrival of voting materials and officials, insufficient voting materials, under-age voting, thuggery, and alleged buying of votes and electoral officials in high and low places.The National Peace Committee and the concomitant Peace Accord did not deter orchestrators of these crisis-spinning acts from indulging in them let alone nip them in the bud. Naturally, it should have been expected that the National Peace Committee would diligently follow through the task by way of proactively monitor, and sniff intelligence and critical information across political party lines, security agencies, INEC, and up to the presidency with a view to advising, cautioning, harmonizing, reconciling, mediating, and even escalating, where and when necessarily. The committee is supposed to have the first-charge election observation; before the foreign observers, civil society organizations, etc. It should not retire into inactivity after administering the accord. Nobody hears official statements from them on the developing foul situations threatening the peace of the election and country. Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar (retd.) has softly asked INEC to take note of the allegations of misconduct trailing the presidential election but he should do beyond that, given the hellish thick cloud of darkness hanging above the peace of the nation. They should, as a committee issue a strong worded directive to INEC and the presidency and follow it up diligently and vigorously. Many elder statesmen, senior citizens, patriots and well-meaning Nigerians have loudly cautioned INEC against doing anything untoward to the mandate of the Nigerian voters. Former president Obasanjo has written a two-page memo drawing the attention of INEC and the presidency to the imminent consequences of perverting the will of the people. He stated in the memo,”At this stage, we do not need wittingly or unwittingly to set this country on fire with greed, irresponsibility and unpatriotic act of those who allegedly gave money to INEC officials for perversion and those who collected the blood money”. He made a daring appeal to the government and also proffered solution. The former president said, “Let me appeal to the chairman of INEC, if his hands are clean, to save Nigeria from the looming danger and disaster, which is just waiting to happen. If the chairman can postpone elections four days to the election, he can do everything to rectify the errors of the last two days – no Bimodal Voter accreditation System (BVAS), no result to be acceptable, and no upload through server, no result to be acceptable. Where BVAS and servers have been manipulated or rendered inactive, such results must be declared void and inadmissible for election declaration”.Obasanjo, who said he has personally spoken with president Buhari on the issues, further proffered solution by calling for the setting up of an INEC Committee, which would comprise the chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), to sort out all the grievances by Nigerians regarding the election with a view to resolving them. The words of former president Obasanjo are strategic, soothing, uplifting, and peace searching. When the sage speaks, wisdom beckons! That is what is expected from the National Peace Committee as a body constituted and authorized by the Federal Government of Nigeria to superintend over the signing of peace agreement by political party candidates and their party chairmen for the purpose of free, fair, and credible elections. It should carry out this task openly and under no cover as Nigerians would want to see and feel their pulse on these anomalies. It is therefore expedient for the National Peace Committee to make itself more visible in addressing issues that run counter to the signed Peace Accord during and after elections.