SECURITY agencies have been put on alert ahead of today’s trial of a
former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, at the Code of
Conduct Tribunal, Abuja,
following reports of attempts to disrupt the proceedings.
Sources said all the security agencies in the country had instructed
their operatives to stop the planned importation of thugs into Abuja for
today’s trial of the former governor.
The sources said security agencies viewed the planned disruption
of the trial as ill-conceived, especially with the security problems
currently being faced in Abuja and other states.
As of last night, it was learnt that orders had gone out to all
securitymen manning all entry points into Abuja to disallow anyone
perceived to be a political thug from entering the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT).
The security alert followed the accusation by the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was planning to
disrupt the trial by importing thugs into Abuja from South-West states.
The PDP, in a statement issued by its Osun State chairman, Chief
Sunday Ojo-Williams, asked security agencies to prevent thugs ferried to
Abuja on Tuesday afternoon from causing mayhem in Abuja.
The PDP said it was aware that 10 busloads of thugs were hired from
each of the ACN states to disrupt the trial of Tinubu and cautioned that
no individual or group had a monopoly of violence.
The party said it was a surprise that the ACN could become so scared
of the trial of Tinubu, even when he was not the first to be so tried.
However, the FCT Police Commissioner, Mike Zuokumor, while reacting
to the allegation of the planned disruption of the trial by some hired
supporters of the ACN, said it was not possible.
“I don’t think there is anything like that, because we will stop it.
If everybody should protest over everything, we will then have anarchy
and this we will not allow in the FCT,” he said.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
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