OPC LAGOS PROTEST: APC Set To Drag President Jonathan To International Criminal Court

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign
Organization (APCPCO) has announced that it will send a petition against
President Goodluck Jonathan to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The
Hague.

The APCPCO said in a statement on Wednesday and signed by
Mallam Garba Shehu, Director of Media and Publicity that the petition follows
the massive terror unleashed on the residents of Lagos by armed pro-Jonathan
groups under the dubious cover of a faction of the Oodua People’s Congress
(OPC) on the pretext of demanding the sack of Professor Attahiru Jega, National
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The APC Presidential Campaign Spokesman noted that the
machete-wielding and gun-bearing armed pro-Jonathan groups marched round the
major streets of Lagos, harassing and intimidating motorists, chanting
anti-Jega songs in a manner that gave them away as acting the carefully-prepared
script for the truncation of the general elections. “There was such disruption
to the tranquillity of the city that warranted the citizens scampering for
safety in all directions, a foretaste of the violence they plan to unleash on
Election Day.”

“Our investigations have confirmed that Monday’s (16th
March, 2015) show was a dress-rehearsal for the main disruption planned for the
general elections. Lagos, and the entire South West, being a stronghold of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), has been marked for massive dishevelling
commotion that would involve killings, maiming and kidnapping.

“Our findings have further shown that the recent Nine
Billion naira (N9 Billion) Pipeline surveillance contract to OPC and some
militant groups in Southern Nigeria was the elixir for the latest crude
impudence of the pro-Jonathan armed groups. Indeed, the contract award was
indeed a subterfuge for the mobilization of these murderous militant groups for
the destruction of lives and property to force the desire of the re-election of
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan on the Nigerian people.

“As an opposition APC, we are using this medium to serve Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan the notice of our formal protest of this extreme show of
impunity to the International Criminal Court (ICC). We are aware that Mrs
Patience Jonathan is already on the watch list of ICC. The activities of this
President and his wife as regards the elections are not patriotic and very
unhelpful for entrenching democratic values in the nation.

“We recall the bombing of the APC secretariat and the
shootings and disruption of the party’s campaign rally in Okirika in Rivers
State, where the First Lady hails from with a muted silence from President
Jonathan.

“Whereas the Police authorities had denied the opposition
party its legitimate and democratic rights to organise one million person march
for General Buhari in Kano it was, however, quick to approve that in Lagos,
providing security to the pro-Jonathan armed groups while they unleashed mayhem
on citizens in Lagos on Monday, a day that inhabitants of the city consider the
most important of the week.

“We are not ready to cower to the intimidation of Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan, ahead of the general elections. We believe Nigerians shall
speak eloquently on 28th March, 2015 and this brutality on the psyche of the
Nigerian people shall cease.”

Vanguard