The Worldwide Felony Courtroom (ICC) of Justice mentioned on Monday that it has obtained a petition towards Bayo Onanuga, the media advisor of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for his ethnic profiling rhetoric that has elevated ethnic stress and division in Nigeria.

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In a letter signed by Mark. P. Dillon, Head of Info and Proof Unit, the Workplace of the Prosecutor said that receipt of the petition has been “totally entered within the Communication Register of the Workplace.”

The ICC mentioned that it might give consideration to this communication as applicable, in accordance with the provisions of the Rome Statute of the Worldwide Felony Courtroom.

It warned that the acknowledgement doesn’t imply that an investigation has been opened by the courtroom.

The courtroom, which resides in The Hague, the Netherlands, nonetheless, promised that as quickly as a call is reached concerning the petition, will probably be communicated expressly.

Onanuga turns into the second high-profile particular person from the Presidential Marketing campaign Council of the APC after Femi Fani Kayode to obtain a petition from a world energy or a global establishment about his unguided utterances, that are able to worsening the already overheated ethnic stress within the nation.