PDP Opposes Buratai, Ex-Service Chiefs As Ambassador

Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of immediate ex-service chiefs as non-career ambassadors, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has expressed its displeasure.

PDP said the nomination was a plot by the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to shield nominees from the investigation over the alleged killing of innocent Nigerians and crimes against humanity under their watch.

This was contained in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, titled, “Ambassadorial nomination: PDP rejects moves to shield ex-service chiefs from investigation,” on Thursday.

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The statement reads in part: “The PDP charges the Senate to eschew all partisan considerations and stand on the side of the people, particularly the victims of atrocious regime of the ex-service chiefs by rejecting the demand by President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm them as ambassadors.

“It is indeed sacrilegious and a horrible assault on the sensibility of Nigerians that the APC government is seeking to use ambassadorial appointments as desperate measure to secure diplomatic immunity for the former commanders and protect them from investigation, arrest and possible prosecution by the International Criminal Court for the atrocities committed against innocent Nigerians under their command.

“The PDP asserts that appointing the former service chiefs as ambassadors would confer diplomatic immunity on them and provide them a route for escape.”

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