Hand over BHaram sponsors to ICC, APC tells Jonathan
The All Progressives Congress has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to arrest and hand over a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sherriff, and a former Chief of Army Staff (names withheld) to the International Court of Justice for prosecution for being sponsors of terrorism in the country.
The National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, gave the challenge on Tuesday, at a media briefing in Abuja.
He spoke about 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 that the APC has 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 had 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 a 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 politicized 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 saw the APC as the only stumbling block to its victory in 2015, had employed the tactic of maligning and labeling it.
Oyegun accused politicians under the platform of the ruling party such as the partys spokesman Olisa Metuh, of orchestrating this strategy by calling the APC a janjaweed and Islamic party.
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Hand over BHaram sponsors to ICC, APC tells Jonathan