By Bode Olagoke
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an international inquiry into Wednesday’s assassination attempt on its leader, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), to unravel the motive and the perpetrators of the act that could have plunged the country into a deep turmoil.
In a statement issued yesterday in Benin City by its National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, the party said “it does not have the confidence that the Nigerian security agencies can carry out an impartial investigation, because they work for the government instead of the nation.”
It said: “’How does one explain a situation in which a man who is nothing but a pervert is now being paraded as the suspected ‘mastermind’ of the attack on Gen. Buhari? At what point was this man, who perhaps is nothing but a transvestite plying his trade, arrested?
Is it not clear, from the statement released by Gen. Buhari himself after the attack, that it was clearly the handiwork of a suicide bomber?
“The arrest of the pervert and his sickening description as a ‘suspected mastermind’ have kick-started the process of muddling the waters, as is usually the case with such high-profile cases.
“This is why an urgent international inquiry into the attack is desirable and imperative, and anyone who is committed to an impartial probe of the attack on the opposition leader should embrace our call.”
