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Three days after the Nigerian Police invaded the headquarters of the “new” People’s Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has interrupted a private economic trade mission in China to issue a statement asking the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed D. Abubakar, to instruct his officers to vacate the party headquarters immediately.
It said: “While it is embarrassing that the police have yet to give a reason on why they are laying siege to a political party office, the whole world knows these are acts prompted by unscrupulous politicians who do not even have the moral conscience not to involve the police in politics.”
“I call on the leadership of the Nigeria Police, especially its Inspector General, to steer clear of political entanglements, and immediately vacate our party offices. Our national law enforcement priority must be the safety and security of Nigerians, not politics.”
Atiku said it is embarrassing that in a week when a top Christian clergy, top lawyer and senior advocate and countless others are being held captive by kidnappers, the Nigeria Police could muster the resources to seal the headquarters of the “new” PDP in negation of a court order.
The former Vice President said the Inspector-General of Police has put a big question mark over the sincerity of his touted reform the police going by the latest behavior of the police force.
“Further, a politically partisan police force sets a dangerous precedent, as they will be entrusted to supervise free and fair elections in the future,” he said.
He declared that IG Abubakar has started on the wrong foot by being openly and overzealously partisan over the internal crisis of the PDP