The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday in Lagos raised alarm over President Muhammadu Buhari plan to extend the tenure of Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Abubakar Idris, by another six months.

National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, rejected Buhari’s plan, describing extension of IG Idris’s tenure as an opportunity for the president to perpetrate his rigging plan for 2019.

Ologbondiyan made this objection while speaking with newsmen, saying that the party was right now aware that the IG had surrounded all the state commissioners of police with his own men, who would be following them to any strategic meeting and spying for him.

Ologbondiyan spoke in the company of spokesperson, Presidential Campaign Council of PDP, Umar Sani, saying that even from President Buhari’s body language, it was quite clear that he was not ready to give Nigeria free and fair elections, come 2019.

He said: “We reject in totality the extension of tenure of the Inspector-General for another six months. We are aware that doing so the president wants to perpetrate his rigging plan for 2019 election.

“Our party is also aware that the IG has surrounded the commissioners of police with his own men who would be following them to a strategic meeting, any meetings and be spying for him. We want to appeal to the Inspector- General of Police to insulate the police from politics.

“President Buhari is totally against free and fair elections in the country as his refusal to sign the amended Electoral Act had shown, even as he said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which promised not to use Incident Form, which allowed for rigging in past polls, was coming out with a format not quite different from one it was trying to discard.

“So the position of PDP is that INEC has a situation room. INEC must allow EU and all other international, as well as local observers, have access to the situation rooms to guarantee free and fair elections,” the party spokesperson said, noting that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was able to rig the recently concluded Osun governorship poll due to its (commission) refusal to allow election observers to the situation room.”

He, however, assured that the PDP was poised to burst all the rigging plans by the APC in the coming polls, saying that despite all barriers put in place, the party was able to let the world know it won the last Osun poll, which was thereafter manipulated.

Ologbondiyan appealed to Nigerians not to allow themselves to be scared by the instruments of government, saying they should all come out on election days, exercise their right and also ensure that they protected their votes from being stolen.

http://dailypost.ng/2018/12/24/buhari-plans-extend-tenure-ig-police-idris-pdp/amp/

Just because we are on nairaland doesn’t give anyone the right to intentionally be deceitful or hurtful. The ppl on the other side of the screen are real and have feelings... just because this is social media doesn’t make ppl immune to being hurt!
Say no to PDP

The question is, is it constitutional?

Ibramamahi:
The question is, is it constitutional?

is he the only person capable to hold that position?

they want to perfect there rigging plan with the igp

This pdp spokesperson gan lasan..his lies can break down a rock..acting like the seer of the future

They want the incompetent IG to repeat the infamous 2015 Kano miracle in 2019.
This is the worst nepotistic, Tribalistic regime in the history of Nigeria.
Useless govt.

tsephanyah:
Just because we are on nairaland doesn’t give anyone the right to intentionally be deceitful or hurtful. The ppl on the other side of the screen are real and have feelings... just because this is social media doesn’t make ppl immune to being hurt!
Say no to PDP

Did you make sense to your self?

An IG of police ridiculed by the world, the worst police IG ever, incoherent transmission transmission, disobedient to the president, an IG that does not respect the rule of law is what Buhari is giving an extension...

Its to rig elections nothing else, it played out evidently in previous polls.

Why must they extend nii
So persons dan finish Weh fit handle that position okwaya?
All evidences are pointing to probable rigging of 2019 election
Apc and their antics ooo, they won't succeed

As the French man would say: Que Sera Sera

Good day

tsephanyah:
Just because we are on nairaland doesn’t give anyone the right to intentionally be deceitful or hurtful. The ppl on the other side of the screen are real and have feelings... just because this is social media doesn’t make ppl immune to being hurt!
Say no to PDP

What is this hag saying?

PDP can cry from now till next year, Nigerians are not returning to Egypt

PMB will like to extend his tenure because their injustice

Such move must be resisted

Idris tenure ends early January so he should go

PDP is now a party of jesters.

If PMB replaces IGP Idris, they will wail and kick.

PMB plans to extend the IGP's tenure, same outcome.

Can we disband this useless party for peace sake?

Esseite:


Did you make sense to your self?

Wait you people are real and not just characters in the nairaland App Game?

tsephanyah:
Wait you people are real and not just characters in the nairaland App Game?

Emmm?... so you still eventually said nothing.

Esseite:


Emmm?... so you still eventually said nothing.

Being terrible at everything is my trademark

PDP should stop wailing jorr. They should find answers to these questions:
1. Who is responsible for appointing IGP?
2. Is the extension constitutional or not?