Senate President Bukola Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Bruce have been invited by the Nigeria Police Force over attack on some of its personnel on Friday.
They were said to have attacked the personnel when the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by its National Chairman, stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to protest the outcome of the Osun State governorship election held recently.
The party said INEC and the police participated in the alleged rigging of the election to favour the winner, Gboyega Oyetola, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, against that of the PDP, Ademola Adeleke.
During the protest, the senators were said to have attacked some police personnel.
In a statement issued by the spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force, Jimoh Moshood, the senators were summoned to explain all that they knew about the disturbance of public peace and the attack on police personnel even when they were not provoked.
The invitation followed a directive by the Inspector General of Police that investigation should be conducted into the clash.
The statement reads in part: “The Inspector-General of Police has directed immediate investigation into this unprovoked and unwarranted attack on the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force and the force headquarters premises which is against the law and condemnable.
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“The force will do everything within the law to bring all perpetrators of this crime to justice, no matter how highly placed.
“Consequently, Senator Bukola Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Bruce who were captured on camera to have been involved in the disturbance of public peace and public safety, unlawful blockade of Shehu Shagari way for several hours preventing motorists, road users and other members of the public from having access and passage on the highway thereby disturbing public peace and public safety and causing innocent people to scamper for safety and violent attack on policemen posted to ensure security of the force headquarters, pushing and hitting the policemen to forcefully enter the force headquarters to cause damage to police equipment and government properties are hereby invited to report themselves to the IGP Monitoring Unit at the force headquarters on Monday, 8th October, 2018 for investigation.
“Members of the public in the FCT are implored to remain calm as the situation is under control. Further development will be communicated to the public soon.”
