Northern Group Wants Buhari Prosecuted For 2011 Post Election Violence

 Northern Coalition for Democracy and Justice, has called for the prosecution of Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2011 post-election violence that rocked parts of Northern Nigeria; PREMIUM TIMES reports.

The group, which according to SAHARA REPORTERS is Pro-Goodluck Jonathan wants Buhari prosecuted at the International Criminal Court, ICC, The Hague.

A statement issued by the group's secretary for research and documentation, Ibrahim Baba, the group said it was compelled to ''sustain the process for the prosecution of Mr. Buhari” which it claimed to have been instituted at the The Hague in May 2011, “for his role that orchestrated the 2011 post-election violence in some parts of the North''.

Also, an international lawyer, Goran Sluiter, speaking on behalf of the group said,''As a fresh round of general elections approaches, recent provocative utterances and inciting statements laced with threat and intimidation by some political actors necessitate our renewed request for the International Court of Justice (ICC) to urgently launch criminal investigations in order to checkmate the reoccurrence of the political violence in the forthcoming 2015 general elections.”''.

The group said that they had video, audio and other documented evidence to support the prosecution of Buhari.