As indicated by PUNCH, Falana said before the races, ICC had cautioned that ought to there be any viciousness and wrongdoings against mankind, any pioneer dependable would be captured and indicted a similar way the ex-President of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, was arraigned.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria made the divulgence at the introduction of the League of Anambra Professionals Legal Defense Initiative, held in Lagos throughout the end of the week.
The legal counselor who said further that because of a paranoid fear of ICC, no Nigerian pioneer challenged cancel race again like a previous Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), did in 1993, included that the dread that President Muhammadu Buhari may be reluctant to leave office in the event that he ought to lose one year from now's race.
Falana stated, "Not at all like in 1993 when the military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, effectively abrogated a decision, that is never again conceivable.
"Whoever does that presently will wind up in The Hague. He is probably going to strive for violations against mankind provided that you cancel a race, you are probably going to have a momentous savagery in the nation which will prompt wrongdoings against humankind.
"Prior to the 2015 decisions, the ICC cautioned that if there was an issue in Nigeria, anyone who was dependable would be captured and charged like previous President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'Ivoire. That was the climate under which President Goodluck surrendered triumph."
Falana said he chose to talk on the issue so as to guarantee Nigerians that decision could never again be invalidated in Nigeria, including that it was imperative as a result of the dread that had been communicated that if Buhari lost the race, he might not have any desire to hand over.
"That has a place with the past," he proclaimed.
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