NAN-H-39
Police
By AbdulFatai Beki.
Ilorin, Nov. 15, 2016 (NAN) The Kwara Police Command will not be partisan in the dispute between the two factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state over ownership of the party’s secretariat in llorin.
The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olusola Emmanuel-Amore, gave the assurance on Tuesday in llorin in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said the command would only ensure that no law was broken by members of the two factions contesting the ownership of the secretariat.
“I am not aware of any dispute over the ownership of PDP secretariat in llorin.
“I do not look into party dispute, I look into crime and if a crime is committed I will take action.
“If a crime is committed and the case is reported, I will investigate the crime and charge whoever is involved to court,” Emmanuel-Amore told NAN.
Chief Iyiola Oyedepo, the chairman of one of the factions, accused the other faction led by Chief Sunday Fagbemi of committing crime by forcing open the secretariat of the party in llorin.
Oyedepo told NAN that the matter had been reported to the police commissioner who promised to charge members involved in the act to court.
Oyedepo said that members of his faction of the party refrained from ejecting the other faction from the secretariat in order not take law into their hands.
Reacting to the accusation, Fagbemi, the chairman of the other faction, refuted the claim that his members forced the secretariat open.
He said that he and other elected executive members of the party moved peacefully into the secretariat located on Asa Dam Road, llorin, on Oct. 31.
“The secretariat is the property of the PDP and as the PDP chairman, I moved in without violence.
“All members have access to the secretariat; the other factions are free to come and some of them have been coming to the secretariat”, Fagbemi said. (NAN)
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Edited by Bayo Sekoni/Archibong Asuquo