The Rivers State Police Command has given reasons why its operatives arrested the lawyers representing the 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the state, alongside some support staff of the party at a hotel where they were perfecting strategies for an appeal at the state electoral tribunal.
The state chapter of the APC had, in a statement on Saturday, accused the police of trying to suppress their case in court following the arrest of its legal team.
But in a statement on Sunday, the Command spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, said contrary to the allegations by the APC, the arrest was not arbitrary as the police worked on a tip-off that some unknown lodgers at a hotel were seen carrying packages in and out of the rooms and printing suspected election materials.
