Death threat: PDP calls for El-Rufai’s arrest

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ),
Prince Uche Secondus, has called on the International Criminal
Court (ICC) to arrest the Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna
State.

The call was made in response to the governor’s threat to
foreign election observers and members of the international
community that they would be sent back to their countries in body
bags if they get involved in the upcoming general elections.

The governor had, during a live programme on the Nigerian
Television Authority (NTA) on Tuesday, threatened that foreign
election observers planning to interfere with the polls will leave
in Nigeria in body bags.

But speaking at the party’s presidential campaign ally in
Makurdi, the Benue State capital on Friday, the PDP chairman, said
that an Atiku Abubakar presidency would put an end to mindless
killings in Benue and other states.

Secondus said, “Yesterday, we went to Katsina, they were killing
in eight local governments. That is the President’s home state. The
killing is so much in Nigeria. Poverty and hunger is too much in
the land. We will shift the headquarters of poverty to another
country. Atiku Abubakar will create jobs for our teeming youths. He
has done it before, he will do it again”.

“We were told that Senator George Akume was inviting military.
This is not a military regime, this is democracy. Anyone that sends
soldiers to Akume is against democracy. And we will reject such
rigged results either in Benue or at the national level. We will
never accept any rigged results.

“You are aware that the Governor of Kaduna State has said that
people will be killed and carried in body bags. And we must stand
because they cannot kill us. The international community is
aware.

“We call on the Federal Government, headed by President
Muhammadu Buhari to set up an inquiry. If he refuses, then the
International Criminal Court should arrest El-Rufai immediately for
saying that the international community and PDP will be carried in
body bags. They are not ready for election. They know that Atiku is
winning”.

The PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, assured
the people that he would end the security challenges in the
state.