The International Criminal Court has said Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, will be prosecuted. The ICC received a petition written by the All Progressives Congress asking it to prosecute the President’s wife for inciting comments she made during the campaigns for the re-election of her husband which might lead to violence
ICC says it had begun preliminary examinations and is ready to take all the necessary steps, which will likely include interrogating the President’s wife and others mentioned in the petition. The ICC is set to prosecute anyone who promotes or instigates violence before, during or after the general elections.
The ICC is believed to have already started to conduct independent investigations and prosecution of the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in some other African countries like Uganda, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast
The ICC is also conducting preliminary examinations relating to the situations in Georgia, Palestine , Guinea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia and Nigeria
It will be recalled that the All Progressives Congress, the major opposition party to the People’s Democratic Party, reported Patience Jonathan, to the International Criminal Court in a petition recently. The petition indicted the President’s wife, claiming that while campaigning for her husband in Calabar, Cross River State, she told the supporters of the PDP to stone anyone canvassing for change in the state.
Mrs. Jonathan according to the statement, “was clearly calling on the PDP supporters in Calabar to attack supporters and campaigners of the APC in the state,” the petition stated.
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