Report yourself to ICC now, PDP tells Buhari

 The Peoples Democratic Party has asked
President Muhammadu Buhari to use his attendance of the 20th anniversary
of the adoption of the International Criminal Court, Rome Statute, to
report his administration to the court over alleged documented human
right abuses, crime against humanity and killings in Nigeria under his
watch.

The party said the fact that President
Buhari was the only head of state invited to the event showed that the
world “is particularly alarmed by the spate of bloodletting,
extra-judicial executions, illegal arrests, arbitrary detention, torture
and reported disappearances, as captured in the reports by the United
States Department of State, Amnesty International and Transparency
International.”

The PDP noted in a statement by its
National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan,  in Abuja on Monday,
that contrary to the effort by the Presidency to present the invitation
as positive for the Buhari Presidency, the administration had a lot of
questions to answer.

He said, “What the Presidency seeks to
hide from Nigerians is that the ICC Rome Statute deals directly with
critical issues of crime against humanity, which is already prevalent in
Nigeria under President Buhari’s watch.”

“The PDP recalls that it had earlier
filed a petition at the United Nations against the Buhari administration
over issues of human rights violations in our country.

“The party, therefore, calls on the ICC
to take President Buhari to task on the documented abuse of human rights
in Nigeria, particularly, the US Department of State 2017 Human Right
Report, which catalogued issues of extrajudicial and arbitrary killings;
disappearances and arbitrary detentions and torture, particularly in
detention facilities in Nigeria under this administration.”

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