According to report from PUNCH, The
national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has demanded the
immediate unsealing of local government councils in Rivers State by the
Police.
The party
described as unconstitutional, reprehensible abuse of power and brazen
show of partisanship, the action of the APC-led Federal
Government-controlled police in barring caretaker committees appointed
by the state government from taking charge of the councils.
PDP
National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement in Abuja
on Friday, said the action of the police was an affront to the ruling
of the High Court, which on Thursday dissolved the 22 local government
councils.
The sacking of the councils made the State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, to appoint caretaker committees to administer them.
Metuh
said, “It was curious that the police allowed the dissolution of local
government councils and appointment of caretaker committees in
APC-controlled Plateau and Kaduna States, even when they were without
the orders of the court but elected to clamp down on that of Rivers
State, which came as a result of judicial pronouncement.”
He,
therefore, charged the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase,
to come out clean on the matter and assure the nation of the
non-partisanship of the police by ordering the immediate unsealing of
the councils.
Metuh said
Nigerians and the international community should note the development
which “is yet another clear indication that the Nigerian police may have
become a partisan and compromised instrument in the hands of the
APC-Federal Government to destabilise PDP-controlled states,
particularly Rivers State.”
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