nPDP Tasks IG To Probe Govs’ Meeting Disruption

The leadership of the New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) has demanded a probe into the November 3 disruption of a meeting of the G-7 governors at the Kano State governor’s lodge, Asokoro, Abuja by a Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Nnanna Amah.
Amah had barged into the Kano State Governor’s lodge where the governors were meeting, saying that he had “orders from above” to stop the meeting or to get the governors arrested.
The governors at the meeting were  Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto); Babangida Aliyu (Niger); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and others.
The party’s call for probe is coming on the heels of a submission by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar that the order to disrupt the meeting did not emanate from his office.
In his submission before the House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs last week, Abubakar had said: “I want to state categorically that neither myself nor any of my officers directed anybody to disrupt any meeting. But the officer has a duty to account for his actions and activities within his domain.”
In a statement issued yesterday by the National Publicity Secretary of the nPDP, Chukwuemeka Eze, the party challenged the IGP to prove his sincerity by instituting a probe into the incident.
The statement said: “This is the only way to convince Nigerians that he (IGP) had no hand in the brazen attempt by the Divisional Police Officer of Asokoro Division, CSP Nnanna Amah, to abruptly and illegally terminate a legitimate gathering of seven of the country’s governors. CSP Nnanna Amah, who had the temerity to threaten to arrest the G-7 Governors if they did not stop the meeting, claimed to be acting on orders from a higher authority from the Villa. Who is that authority in the Villa? Nigerians surely deserve to know.”

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