The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again
reported President Muhammadu Buhari to the United Nations and the International
Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.
The party urged the two bodies to take judicial
note of the boast by the president affirming and approving his violation of
fundamental rights of Nigerians during his regime as military head of state.
In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan,
PDP said President Buhari has been overheating the polity with inflammatory and
anti-democratic comments, which have been promoting state involved violence,
sectional bloodletting and resentment; exacerbated hatred, abuse of rights and
brazen violation of our constitution and democratic order.
“Nigerians were shocked when President Buhari,
with relish, boasted 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.”
The opposition party noted that whereas the
country’s 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 has been promoting the otherwise and feels
favourably disposed to acts that suspends our constitution and imposition of
military diktat.
“This particular hate speech by President 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, molestations, 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
other states.“
Furthermore, the world now know 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 calls on the United Nations,
the ICC, 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 PDP said it would 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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