PDP Urges ICC To List Amaechi For Inciting Violence With War Songs

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday asked the
International Criminal Court (ICC) to immediately list 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.

PDP, in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said
that it was unfortunate for Amaechi to incite the people with war
songs just because, President Muhammadu Buhari, has been
rejected.

PDP noted that the threat of violence by Amaechi is coming
barely 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.

PDP said that the threats have all exposed APC’s plot against
peaceful elections in Nigeria.

“It is completely 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 his party has
no candidate in the state for the general elections.

“Nigerians understand Amaechi 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.

“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
said.

PDP, has, however, 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 the country, before, during and after
the elections.