Kogi State Police Command has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the spokesman of the Social Democratic Party Muri-Sam Campaign Council, Farouk Adejoh-Audu, to retract claims he made against the state Commissioner of Police, Bethrand Onuoha.
The ultimatum was contained in a statement by the command Public Relations Officer, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, who stated that the allegations made against the command and the CP were very weighty, frivolous and disturbing.
The command claimed that Adejoh-Audu in a statement on Wednesday, accused the CP of using policemen and thugs to barricade the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Lokoja.
The police also claimed that Adejoh-Audu said the target of the CP was to use ambush and attack lawyers and forensic experts of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), as well as INEC officers inspecting documents and materials used for the November 11 governorship election.
It further accused the SDP media officer of saying that Onuoha was not only privy to the attack, but also plan to use plain cloth personnel in five unmarked Toyota Sienna Buses to trail the SDP team and INEC personnel and shoot at the convoy as they depart for Abuja.
Ovye-Aya argued that the Police Command does not belong to any political party, promising that the command would conduct unbiased investigations into the allegations to ensure that a final knell is placed on attempts by politicians to drag the Police Force into partisan disagreements.
