Imoh Moshood, police public relations officer (PPRO), says the collapse of Charly Boy at the protest demanding that President Muhammadu Buhari either resume office or resign was “over dramatisation”.

Moshood said this in an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels TV programme, on Thursday.

The police spokesman said when Charly Boy spotted the camera, he then fell down.

He said the police intervened in the protest because they “noticed a mix-up of miscreants and hoodlums”.

“You can see over dramatisation of the leader of the protesters who was sitting on a chair and because the camera is coming to his side decided to fall down,” Moshood said.

“The same man went to AIT that same day immediately after the incident and went and narrated what had happened. I’m not being persecuted but I’m allowed to say the side of the police.

“The first day of the protest it was peaceful, the second day when miscreants mixed in, police used its judgment to disperse them.”

Earlier, Deji Adeyanju, a leader of the protesters, said Charly Boy collapsed after the police used teargas on them.

He said the claim of the police that they were infiltrated by miscreants was false.

“He (Charly Boy) had collapsed when the teargas was shot at us, he is 66, the teargas was shot directly at us. While we were yet sitting again, they kept shooting the tear-gas. The smoke must have affected him,” Adeyanju said.

“Immediately we got to the venue of the protest on Tuesday we were confronted by the police and they told us that we had a successful sit-out which was Monday and that there was no need to proceed that this cannot be a daily thing, that it going to become an embarrassment to the government, and that we should postpone it by another week or two.

“That we can just come back another day and have a procession we told them that we had a programme and the police was adequately informed of all these and they can’t prevent us from carrying out our daily sit-out and as we sat down we started, we were just about 10 or there about.

“As we started water cannon vehicles starting coming round us and the next thing they started pouring water on us and they were about 20 dogs there and there were a lot of horses and we started running to where the police people were because we trying to prevent the dogs from biting us.

“Then they shot tear-gas, directly at us. It was at that point that one Silverbed journalist was injured on his left arm another protester, Theophilous also fainted, we had to rush him – some took him from the hospital.
“We went to the Unity Fountain and we were briefing journalists that were on ground while we were doing that, they shot tear-gas again at us.”
He added that they notified the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) of the protest.

“We are not interested in all these back and forth, we just want the president to resume or resign, that is not too much to ask, he has been gone for 94 days,” Adeyanju said.

watch charlie boy collapse after being teargassed-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd9IdrWCCu0

https://www.thecable.ng/charly-boy-fell-down-when-he-spotted-the-camera-says-police-spokesman

The man get Masters Degree in Mass Communications now

Charly boy fooling himself and zombies are seeing him as role model, I SMH for Them

watch him collapse-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd9IdrWCCu0

Why dem sef kick am for box 18.abeg area fada carry go jo. Show them how it's done. But those pants na wa o. Colour riot

watch police PPRO Accuse him here-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tXrlb6TYVA

Oga zoo police.... forgive Charly Boy.

It was Amadioha who struck him down

If he was, you gave him the excuse and platform. If the police had acted civilised, Charlie boy would not have seen the excuse to dramatise.

booblacain:
If he was, you gave him the excuse and platform. If the police had acted civilised, Charlie boy would not have seen the excuse to dramatise.

WELL SAID.

So insensitive of the Nigerian Police Force to say something like this.

How did he jump to this conclusion?

So the other person that fainted too,did it for the camera?

Why weren't the pro-buhari group tear-gassed? Ohh!. Their rally wasn't "hijacked" by hoodlums

On another note, Mope cannot act as an umpire?why is she being sentimental and "attacking" the police spokesman?

Oga police, that is not the issue.
Did you or did you not fire tear gas and water canons on people in a park engaged in a peaceful protest without arms?

Being over dramatic is sitting in UK feigning whatever and still receive visitors at will, but would not address your people.

Yes he was.....but NPF is a Failure and Disgrace

NPF are hardened lairs, unrepentant lowlifes

If you defend them on Nairaland because of sentiments, I pray for you to encounter them in real life...

After which your chorus will change...

When will this grand pa stop being a boy. Always fooling himself.

You provided him with the stage for the drama due to your high level of unprofessionalism.

Imagine the animal talk

A grandfather fainting because of the tear gas you throw at him is being over dramatic?
I don't blame you people I blame social media that gives you untrained idiots the opportunity to speak nonsense.

What did the police did to him?I doesn't understand the story

Oga police listen even if Charly papa made a dramatic faint use ur head. By d way area father na ur mate? A man of 66 years old. Point out any police at 66 in active service?

The masses are protesting about something that affects u, ur children born, unborn and dead. U lick d boots of those in govt house that pays u peanuts, poor welfare and when u retire no pension they will tell u to come for biodata bla bla, verification exercise while they embezzle billions with their bogus pay untop of that. Look at ur filthy barracks and codition of ur stations across d country compared with d palatial houses of those bastards in power.

Zombies.
Let me show u something dramatic

hmmm

He would have make a very good barca player na so dem dey fall for pitch.
the breeze of the opponent intention dey fall dem.

Haha

Of which na true...

Something tells me that this charly boy is a useless man in real life

Funny

Only in Nigeria will they beat you with cane and not even allow you cry

You bust tear gas for im face and you no wan see am faint

Oga police, God dey, abeg

Those idiots name 9ja police can't protect charly boy, but they can protect hired buhari supporter/protesters

Eyahh!, just see how Charly boy's fellow 'one Nigerianists' are messing him up..He has been reduced to a circus clown

Ok

E just be like where dey dey do audition for Nollywood.

enemyofprogress:
What did the police did to him?I doesn't understand the story

You doesn't understand the story? Why would you does. Oh boy! A typical example of "grammar no be my language"