Nigeria, Jan. 28 -- Nigeria's main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the International Criminal Court and other world bodies to probe the service chiefs who resigned from their appointments on Tuesday.

The outgone service chiefs are Gabriel Olonisakin, the chief of defence staff; Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff; Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff; and Ibok Ibas, the chief of naval staff.

The PDP, in a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday, alleged that the former service chiefs had committed crimes against humanity and should be probed.

Apart from noting their failure to defend the country against insurgents, the party called for an investigation into the extra-judicial ki...