PDP Convention: Wike accuses Police of partisanship

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has accused the Nigerian Police of partisanship and taking sides in an internal party problem in the country.

The governor frowned at the decision of the Police to execute an interim injunction on the PDP National Convention when there was a judgment directing the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS), to provide security for the August 17, PDP National Convention.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference on Sunday Night, Governor Wike said there was no reason for the police to have resolved to execute the interim order of Justice Okon Abang in a suit where it was not a party, neither was it served with the order delivered late in the evening of Tuesday, August 16, 2016.

Wike described the action of the police as scandalous and undemocratic, saying that there is no explanation for what they did to the PDP because they were allegedly obeying orders from above.

Said he, “The Honorable Justice Okon Abang sat until about 1700 hours, took a short break, and delivered his controversial judgment at about 1800 hours. At which time the Convention venue had already been sealed by a large contingent of security personnel personally led by the Rivers State Commissioner of Police (CP) and the State Director of the Department of State Security (SDDSS).  The question is: when was the enrolled order prepared, vetted, signed, served and or transmitted to the Police in Port Harcourt for enforcement in a matter in which they were never sued or joined as parties?

“And because a PDP convention must be prevented from holding, the lives and property of Rivers people became inconsequential in the reckoning of the CP and the SDDSS.”