NATIONAL: Nominating ex-service chiefs for ambassadorial posts is sacrilegious, PDP tells Buhari, APC

THE People’s Democratic Party has faulted President Buhari’s   nomination of the immediate past service chiefs for non-career ambassadorial positions

 PDP alleged that the nomination was a plot by the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress to shield the immediate past service chiefs from investigation over the alleged killing of innocent Nigerians and crimes against humanity under their watch.

The PDP 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, said, “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.”