Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has refused to physically appear before the Police Command and the Commissioner of Police in respect of the allegation of disturbance of public peace and order.
 
The command had, last week, summoned the ex-governor alongside with some coalition members of the All Democratic Congress (ADC) to appear before the CP yesterday regarding the incitement claim.

But rather than appearing in person at the police command, el-Rufai, instead, sent a team of lawyers, accompanied by the ADC Chairman, the police spokesman, DSP Mansir Hassan, told The Guardian.
He said: “We told them that there is a petition before the Command, which we are investigating against the former governor and some coalition members of the party. And we expect the former governor to honour the invitation by the Commissioner of Police.”
 
Curiously, el-Rufai petitioned the Police Service Commission (PSC), accusing the CP of unprofessional conduct.

The former governor, in the petition addressed to the PSC, accused the CP and some officers in the state of “unprofessional conduct, abuse of office and serial violations of the Police Act 2020 and regulations.”

IN another development, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has claimed that the police, alongside hired armed political thugs, were working together with the tacit approval of the Presidency to maximally disrupt and sabotage attempts by opposition parties to hold political meetings in most parts of the country, especially in states controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
 
HURIWA alleged that the targeted attacks by armed thugs and the illegal and arbitrary restraining order by the police stopping peaceful meetings of ADC in Kaduna, Lagos and Imo states followed a peculiar pattern of well-coordinated violence sponsored by the government to disrupt moves by the ADC to hold their lawful meetings.
 
It said President Bola Tinubu must order the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to desist from what it termed “the police’s coordinated clampdown of opposition politicians.”

HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, stated: “These attacks are no coincidences, but these are very masterfully coordinated, heavily funded by both the APC in close and mutual partnership with the Nigeria Police Force, which has behaved like the armed wing of the APC. It is also miffed that miscreants, suspected to be political thugs, invaded a rally organised by the Lagos State chapter of the ADC.”