The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) says it is not ready to engage in a media tussle with Siminalayi Fubara, Rivers governor.
The Nigeria Police Force says it is not ready to engage in a media tussle with Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of Rivers, over the political crisis in the state.
by the governor and said they were only conforming with a court order barring the force from participating in the LGA elections.In a statement on Monday, Muyiwa Adejobi, the police spokesperson, debunked the “prevailing falsehood of partisanship circulating in the media”. He noted that the “misinformation triggered by the unwarranted outburst of Fubara was totally uncalled for and unfair to the law enforcement institutions in Nigeria”.
“We have seen Chiefs of Police from across the world coming to attend his events in Nigeria and extending several invitations to him. For the first time, the president of Interpol was at the opening ceremony of the Nigeria Police conference and retreat in Owerri last year under this IGP. Let us please observe some decorum in our politics in Nigeria.
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