Threat of violence: PDP urges ICC to interrogate Amaechi
...Says Buhari, el-Rufai, Amaechi statements plots against peaceful election
Tunde Opalana, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to immediately list for interrogation, the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organization and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, for inciting violence with war songs at the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers state on Tuesday. The PDP noted that the threat of violence by Rotimi Amaechi which came few days after President Muhammadu Buhari called on his supporters to get ready to fight; as well as the threat by Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state, who declared that members of the global democratic institutions working for peaceful elections will return to their countries in body bags, have all exposed APC’s plot against peaceful elections in Nigeria. The party found it completely unbelievable and reprehensible that Amaechi, who had the privilege of governing Rivers state for eight years, will resort to importation of thugs into the state and inciting violence, just because the people have rejected President Buhari and that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no candidate in the state for the general elections. The PDP in a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said Nigerians understand “Amaechi’s frustration as a salesman of a failed product, in President Buhari, which he also attested to in his leaked audio recording, but seeking to vent this frustration on the peace-loving people of Rivers state is totally unacceptable. The PDP presumed that Amaechi “should have understood that Nigerians, across the board, have rejected President Buhari and reached a consensus to elect the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as the next President of our country. He should know that no form of intimidation, enticement or blackmail can change that reality”. The party therefore urged Nigerians to hold Amaechi and the APC responsible should there be any breakdown of law and order in River State or any other part of our country, before, during and after the elections.
