Police now a compromised instrument of APC, says PDP

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Nigeria police as a compromised instrument in the hands of the All Progressives Congress (APC), demanding that it immediately unseals the local government councils in Rivers state.

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 lawfully appointed by the state government from taking charge of the councils.

Olisa Metuh, PDP spokesman, in a statement 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 unlawfully imposed by the immediate past administration in the state, upon which the caretaker committees were appointed by Nyesom Wike.

“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.”

PDP therefore charged the inspector-general of police 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.

The party said Nigerians and the international community should note that the development, “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 destabilize PDP controlled states, particularly Rivers State.”