APC drags Jonathan, Obanikoro, Fayose others to

The All Progressives Congress has
asked the International Criminal
Court in The Hague, to investigate
President Goodluck Jonathan and
eight others as regards an audio
file which allegedly captured some
Peoples Democratic Party’s leaders
giving orders to a military officer on
how to rig the June 21, 2014
governorship election in Ekiti State
in their favour.
Apart from Jonathan, others named
as accused persons in the petition
are Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs II, Musiliu Obanikoro; Ekiti
State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose;
former governorship candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party in
Osun State, Iyiola Omisore; and
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief
Marshal Alex Badeh,
Others are Chief of Army Staff, Lt.
Gen. Kenneth Minimah, the
Commanding Officer of the Nigerian
Army’s 32nd Artillery Brigade
Commander, Akure, Ondo State,
Brig. Gen. Aliyu Momoh; a member
of the Federal House of
Representatives, Abdulkareem; and
the Minister of Police Affairs, Mr.
Jelili Adesiyan.
A copy of the petition dated March
25, 2015, read in part, “Essentially,
the recording provides evidence of
a clearly articulated strategy to
militarise Ekiti and emasculate the
opposition parties and their
supporters as an approach to
rigging the elections in favour of
the PDP.
“The meeting was attended by top
Federal Government officials
including two ministers
responsible for the Armed Forces
and Police. Senator Musiliu
Obanikoro, who was then Minister
of State for Defence, and Mr. Jelili
Adesiyan, the serving Minister for
Police Affairs, were senior
government officials, who actively
participated in the discussions.”
A copy of the petition sighted by
our correspondent on Thursday was
said to have been submitted to the
office of the ICC prosecutor, Ms.
Fatou Bensouda.
It was submitted on behalf of the
APC by a United Kingdom-based
human rights lawyer, Mr. Olukunle
Omojuwa.
An electronic mail containing an
attachment of the petition, which
was forwarded to our
correspondent, showed that the
same mail was originally sent to
the information desk of the ICC
prosecutor on Thursday.
Meanwhile, our correspondent
contacted the Public Information
Officer of the ICC, Florence Olara, on
Thursday to confirm if the court had
received the APC’s petition,
Olara, who said she needed to
confirm from the concerned
department of the court, had yet to
revert to our correspondent as she
promised as of the time this report
was filed at about 6pm (Nigerian
time) on Thursday.
The petitioner alleged that the
scenario captured in the audio file
and the events that followed had
elements of torture, deprivation of
physical liberty, persecution and
murder.

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