Hand Sheriff, Ihejerika over to ICC, APC tells Jonathan
National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun
The All Progressives Congress has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to arrest and hand over former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejerika, to the International Criminal Court.
National Chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, gave the challenge on Tuesday, at a media briefing in Abuja.
He spoke on the partys stand on a recent revelation by a Federal Government appointed negotiator that the duo were among sponsors of the terrorist group.
According to Oyegun, the truth about the seemingly intractable insurrection is finally out and the APC had been vindicated.
He explained that it was now clear that contrary to an orchestrated plot by the ruling party and officials of government, the APC has no hand in the Boko Haram insurgency.
Oyegun said, The sponsors of Boko Haram are within the PDP and the Presidency. They are known friends of President Jonathan. He knows them and they know him.
The man who exposed these Boko Haram sponsors is a Jonathan-appointed negotiator. He has no axe to grind, neither does he have any motive to shield the APC or portray the PDP Presidency in bad light. In fact, if he had any sympathy at all, it is for the man who hired him-President Jonathan.
We have said it all along. Boko Haram was politicised purely for one reason, and one reason only: To be used as a trump card for President Jonathan to win another term.
The party said in a desperate bid to make this strategy work, the PDP which sees the APC as the only stumbling block to its victory in 2015, has employed the tactic of maligning and labeling it.
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Hand Sheriff, Ihejerika over to ICC, APC tells Jonathan