Buhari Assassination Attempt: APC Seeks Int’l Inquiry

Investigation into the attempted assassination of former military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari, has been requested by the All Progressives Congress, APC.

On Wednesday, a suicide bomber attempted to kill the National Leader of the APC, but Buhari escaped unhurt, injuring three of his aides and killing some passers-by.

Speaking via a statement issued on Sunday in Benin City, the Edo State capital, the National Chairman of APC, John Oyegun, said an international inquiry in necessary to uncover the motive behind the attack, noting that the Nigerian government was not capable of carrying out a fair investigation into the matter, as with other high profile cases in the country.

Oyegun pointed out the man paraded by the security agencies to be the mastermind of the attack buttresses his point.

“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?” Oyegun queried.

The former governor of Edo State asked further, “could the person who drove the vehicle that was rammed into the General’s convoy have survived the explosion that was triggered by that action? Could the innocent passers-by who died in the blast not have been arrested and paraded as the ‘suspected masterminds’ if they had survived the blast?”

“Clearly, 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,” the opposition party leader noted.

Oyegun emphasised that, “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.”