A political group sympathetic to President Goodluck Jonathan is seeking to ambush Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by advocating his prosecution for his alleged role in the post-election violence that rocked parts of northern Nigeria after the 2011 general elections.
Some members of the National Service Corps as well as other Nigerians lost their lives in riots that broke out after President Goodluck Jonathan was announced as the winner of the 2011 presidential election.
Addressing a news conference in Abuja today, a group of northern political elements said that those responsible for the premeditated arson, killings and destruction of property in 2011 must be brought to justice.
The group, which has retained an international lawyer, Goran Sluiter, stated, “As a fresh round of general elections approaches, recent provocative utterances and inciting statements laced with threat and intimidation by some political actors necessitate our renewed request for the International Court of Justice (ICC) to urgently launch criminal investigations in order to checkmate the reoccurrence of the political violence in the forthcoming 2015 general elections.”
