Abuja - The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate unsealing of local council premises in Rivers State.
Police have sealed the premises.
The party described the action as unconstitutional, reprehensible abuse of power and a brazen show of partisanship.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, on Friday said the action of the police is an affront to the ruling of the High Court, which 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 Governor 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," Metuh said.
Metuh 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.
He said Nigerians and the international community should note the development, which is a yet another clear indication that the Nigerian police might have become a partisan and compromised instruments in the hands of the APC federal government to destabilize PDP controlled states, particularly Rivers State.
The sealing of the councils premises is the latest twist in what has been a dramatic week.
Earlier, Lambo Akanbi, justice of a federal high court in Rivers state, sacked the 22 local government council chairmen‎ of the state.
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According to Akanbi, who also dissolved the local government councils, the election of the chairmen on May 23, was in violation of an earlier court order restricting the past government of Chibuike Amaechi from conducting the election.
The judgement was preceded by a bomb blast near the court.

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I remember when PDP sent their GOON(MBU)in Uniform, after Ameachi and the world did not end.

PDP will be okay, what goes round comes round. Wike is a walking time bomb, and in as much as we await the election tribunal to throw him out, the Federal Government should as a matter of priority, curtail his excesses.

First, in 20 Days in office,he had borrowed 50 Billion Naira already. Does he still think this is the PDP Era, where stealing public funds was taken to a new world record low?this man should be checked.

Ok

Abuse of power!

So called 'Progress-thieves' let be Dullardin ho

elohorayodele:
So called 'Progress-thieves' let be Dullardin ho

. On what order is I:G acting now? Buhari or ameachi? As for me buhari is a scam,

HungerBAD:
I remember when PDP sent their GOON(MBU)in Uniform, after Ameachi and the world did not end.

PDP will be okay, what goes round comes round. Wike is a walking time bomb, and in as much as we await the election tribunal to throw him out, the Federal Government should as a matter of priority, curtail his excesses.

First, in 20 Days in office,he had borrowed 50 Billion Naira already. Does he still think this is the PDP Era, where stealing public funds was taken to a new world record low?this man should be checked.

The council should be locked until APC appeals the silly court decsion

This Strange impunity is capable of causing violent in the state. Because this a court order But in Pleateu state the APC Govn remove the elected chairmen without any court order but the police did not found it fit to invade the council.

merry02:
Abuse of power!

Yeah! Unlike saying 16 is > 19 or preventing a governor from entering a govt house.

bettercreature:
The council should be locked until APC appeals the silly court decsion

Exactly

honestivo:
This Strange impunity is capable of causing violent in the state. Because this a court order But in Pleateu state the APC Govn remove the elected chairmen without any court order but the police did not found it fit to invade the council.

Welcome to the new change they promised us

it is unfortunate that we let these lawbreakers to power, even when they disregarded the consti. in the name legislative defection. i am not surprised b/c ameachi has always shown more impunity even as a gov. but we will resist them in lawful way.

Radarada.
If it's not because of the bomb blast that they sealed the premises.

This is most unfortunate, hope the lanky tyrant won't take us back to 1984 when he ruled this country like his personal fiefdom . He should realize his whims can no longer be deemed as law in this democratic dispensation. Those who promoted and imposed him on us assured us all of his transformation from an unfeeling, power drunk, taciturn tyrant to a gentleman with democratic temperament. They need to put a leech on him before we all become victims of his viciousness