The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson , has reaffirmed the party's decision not to sign any peace agreement ahead of the 2024 elections. Speaking on TV3 on Tuesday, August 19, 2024, he emphasised that signing the agreement is not a guarantee for peace and called for a more comprehensive approach in dealing with election violence ensuring that the rule of law is upheld. "If violence is brewing, and you go to just say that you are signing a piece of paper to get peace, you will never get peace. Let's work to remove the things that will generate violence. The 2020 elections turned out to be the most violent elections in the history of the country and if we do not learn from our own history we are bound to repeat it. "Let's work to remove the things that will generate violence so that we don't need to sign any document. The peace council condones the wrong things and you want me, to sign a peace agreement.