Questions Buhari Must Answer --PDPPCO

THEPEOPLES Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation,
PDPPCO, yesterday, alleged that leaders of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) are planning to attack President Goodluck Jonathan's
private life through a video documentary.

He also enumerated a litany of questions the APC Presidential
Candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has to answer, which
said were enough to disqualify him from the presidential race.

Addressing Journalists in Abuja, Director, Media and Publicity of PDP
Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode said the
APC leaders with the financial support of two serving governors and a
former state governor are planning to put in place a documentary about
the private lives of President Goodluck Jonathan, First Lady, Dame
Patience Jonathan and Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani
Alison- Madueke.

Fani- Kayode described the move to air the documentary as despicable,
wicked, with the sole aim of scandalising, undermining and bringing
into disrepute, President Jonathan, his wife and Diezani- Madueke,
adding, "The documentary is riddled with falsehood and it is vulgar,
smutty, cheap, shameful and salacious.''

Speaking on the threat by the APC to drag Dame Patience Jonathan
before the International Criminal Court of Justice, ICC, Fani-Kayode
said: "We read, with amusement, the threat by the Buhari's Campaign
Organisation through their spokesperson, Mr Garba Shehu, that it is
their intention to drag the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, before
the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC), for allegedly
indulging in what they described as ''hate speech'' at a recent rally
in Rivers State.

"It is pertinent to note that, first of all, if they were a little
better educated and had a better understanding of international law
and how the ICC works, they would appreciate the fact that no
individual is ever taken to the ICC based on what he or she has said
unless and until people act on those words and massacre others. It is
only if that speech is followed by violence and mayhem or if it
incites people to commit violence, which results in death, mass murder
and crimes against humanity, that the person who indulged in such hate
speech becomes an eligible candidate for the ICC....

"Dame Patience Jonathan is a woman of peace.

The truth is that if anybody is a candidate for the ICC, it is
certainly not Dame Patience Jonathan, but rather General Muhammadu
Buhari himself. We say this because, firstly, he needs to answer
questions about his role in the July 29, 1966 coup and the mass murder
of about 300 Igbo army officers, including a serving Head of State,
that took place that night. Secondly, there are questions to be
answered about his role during the pogrom and massacre in northern
Nigeria in 1966 in which no less than 100,000 innocent Igbo civilians
including women and children, were slaughtered in cold blood by mobs
that were covertly armed and supported by a small handful of junior
army officers.
--Vanguard