PDP to ICC: Hold Amaechi responsible for breakdown of law and order

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted the International Criminal Court (ICC) to immediately list the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organization and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi for prosecution.

The PDP said Amaechi should be listed for inciting violence with war songs at the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers state on Tuesday, during which 14 people died in stampede.

The PDP noted that the threat of violence by Rotimi Amaechi which came few days after President Muhammadu Buhari had 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, 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”, the PDP said.

According to PDP,  Nigerians understand Amaechi’s  frustration as a salesman of a failed product, in President Buhari, which it said attested to in his leaked audio recording, but that 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 PDP said in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan.

The PDP therefore 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 our country, before, during and after the elections.