The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has filed reports to the United Nations against President Muhammadu Buhari on issues bordering on the alleged role of his administration in the escalation of terrorism, violation of rights, electoral malpractices, corruption, national division and economic ruin of Nigeria in the last six years.
Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, made this known in a statement on Thursday.
The PDP said ,”The sanctity of human lives, freedom, respect for human rights, justice and rule of law, credible elections, democratic governance promotion of peace, accountability in governance, economic development among others, which the General Assembly stands for, have all been violated by the Buhari administration.”
Buhari is to address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Friday.
The PDP urged the General Assembly not to lose sight of the reports by credible international organisations, including the US Department of State as well as Amnesty International (Al) on cases of arbitrary arrests and detention in dehumanising facilities, widespread extrajudicial killings, sudden disappearances of dissenting voices and disregard for the rule of law under President Buhari’s watch.
PDP said this is in addition to brazen disobedience to court orders, use of security forces to suppress citizens, media gagging, and systemic injustices “that underscore the horrible situation in Buhari’s Nigeria, as also profiled by the International Criminal Court (ICC).”
The PDP urged the General Assembly to question President Buhari on “the failures and alleged compromises of our nation’s security coordination under his administration, leading to unabated mass killings, kidnapping, banditry, arson and marauding of communities across our nation, to the extent that Nigeria now ranks as the third country with the highest level of terrorism after Iran and Afghanistan.”
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The General Assembly was further called upon to take on President Buhari over his administration’s alleged provision of official cover for sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria, “including those recently communicated to it by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as a serving minister who was openly indicted as an apologist of terrorism.”
On the abuse of human rights, the PDP urged the General Assembly to query Buhari “on the killing of innocent and unarmed protesters in the various parts of our country by security forces under his command, particularly the killing of our young ones during the EndSARS protest in 2020.”
The PDP also urged the General Assembly and the international media to question Buhari on the erosion of constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, the hounding of opposition and dissenting voices, clampdown on the media and suspension of Twitter in Nigeria.
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