The
Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, has ordered the withdrawal of
policemen attached to the office of the Speaker, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal.
The order is
contained in a statement issued by the Force spokesman, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, an
Acting Commissioner of Police, on Thursday in Abuja.
The
statement said the action was because of Tambuwal’s defection from the PDP to
APC.
The police
defended its stand, stating that it was done “having regard to the clear
provision of section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria as amended’’.
The speaker
defected on Wednesday shortly before the House adjourned sitting till Dec. 3.
Meanwhile,
the I-G said the force had committed adequate resources to the provision of
logistics to effectively police the 2015 generation elections.
Ojukwu, in
another statement, said Abba gave the assurance when the “ECOWAS Pre-Election
Fact Finding Head of Mission to Nigeria’’ paid him a courtesy visit.
It said Abba
had assured the team that, the police had made adequate preparations to make
the election hitch free, adding that the welfare and training of personnel on
election security was on going.
The
statement indicated that the head of the ECOWAS mission, former Ghananian
President, John Kufour, had informed the police chief that the visit was to
appraise the police readiness for a violent-free poll in 2015.
It added
that Kufour commended the force for the proactive strategies it had adopted
ahead of the election.
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