the Senate on Tuesday.
He is to explain the role of the police in the crisis rocking Rivers State.
The Senate spokesman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, said this while
addressing journalists after the upper chamber's plenary on Wednesday.
He said, "The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, will
appear before the Senate next week Tuesday to explain the role of the
police in the Rivers State crisis."
The Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, had accused the state
police command of partiality in the handling of political crisis in
the state.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress said it had uncovered a plot
by members of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Grassroots
Development Initiative to disrupt its ongoing membersip registration
in Rivers State.
The state APC accused the PDP of planning to unleash terror on
registration officers and its (APC) members in units, wards and local
government areas where the exercise, which began on Tuesday, was being
held.
It pointed out that local government leaders of the PDP and GDI had
been instructed to ensure that the registration centres of the APC
were attacked.
A statement signed by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Chief
Andy Nweye, in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, indicated that the planned
attack was to get the backing of the police in the state.
"The APC has uncovered a sinister plan by the leadership and members
of the PDP and the GDI to violently disrupt our registration exercise
by unleashing terror on innocent registration officers and members of
the APC in the units, wards and LGAs in Rivers State.
"Rising from a meeting in the house of a PDP/GDI chieftain and former
chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, the leaders of the
PDP/GDI were instructed to ensure that all units of the registration
centres are physically attacked with the assurance that the police in
Rivers State is fully behind them," the statement reads.
It, however, called on security agencies in the state to take
appropriate steps to prevent the APC from embracing self-help, adding
that nobody has monopoly of violence.
"We call on our registration officers and the supervisors to carry on
with the exercise without any fear whatsoever while we call on the
police to provide you with adequate security as you conduct the
exercise," the APC added.
But the State PDP, through the Special Adviser on Media to its
Chairman, Mr. Jerry Needam, described the APC's allegation as false
and baseless.
Meanwhile, the PDP has accused the APC of using polling units in the
state as registration centres for its (APC) members.
Stakeholders in the state chapter of the PDP said after a meeting in
Port Harcourt on Tuesday that the action of the APC was a ploy to rig
the forthcoming council election in the state.
A communiqué signed by the one of the leaders of the party, Chief John
Bazia, and other stakeholders, stated that INEC had yet to commence
voter registration.
The PDP called on the security agencies and INEC to prevail on the APC
to carry out the registration of its members according to the
electoral laws in order to prevent the breakdown of law and order in
the state
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