The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has called on the United Nations, UN, and the International Criminal
Court, ICC, at The Hague, to take judicial notice of the boast by President
Muhammadu Buhari allegedly, “affirming and approving his violation of fundamental
rights of Nigerians” during his regime as military head of state.
This was as the main opposition
party said Nigerians were shocked to hear Buhari, while receiving members of
his support organisation, reportedly boasting that “When I was in uniform,
younger and rather ruthless, I got from President downward, I locked them up in
Kirikiri. I said you’re guilty except you prove yourself innocent”.
But in a statement issued in
Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP
stated that the purported hate speech by Buhari has, “finally confirmed the
underlining impetus behind the prevailing executive highhandedness, the
trumped-up charges against the opposition, persecution of political opponents,
flagrant disobedience to court orders, brazen harassment, arrests, molestation,
illegal detention and extra-judicial execution of innocent Nigerians as already
catalogued by the PDP and international bodies, including the United States
Department of State.
“These include the horrendous
bloodletting and killings in various parts of our country, particularly in
Adamawa, Benue, Taraba, Kogi, Plateau, Nasarawa, Borno, Zamfara, Yobe, Abia,
Anambra, among others.
The statement reads in part,
“Whereas our constitution and all tenets of democracy and justice across the
world, hold all citizens innocent until proven guilty in court of competent
jurisdiction, President Buhari promotes the otherwise and feels favourably
disposed to acts that suspend our constitution and imposition of military
diktat.
“Furthermore, the world now knows
why appointees of President Buhari have continued to hold the institution of
democracy, particularly the National Assembly and the courts, in utter disdain,
in addition to the continuous harassment of federal legislators and
intimidation of judicial officers.
“Nigeria has not been more
divided than it is today under President Buhari and unguarded comments, which
have continued to overheat the polity and set citizens against one another.”
The PDP, therefore, called on the
world bodies and, “all lovers of democracy as well as all compatriots to join
hands in condemning this trend that is now obviously threatening to truncate
our hard-earned democracy and erode the freedom our people.”
The statement affirmed that the
PDP will continue to stand with the people and work for the unity, cohesion and
protection of all Nigerians irrespective of creed, ethnicity and political
affiliations.
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