Nasarawa women defy illegal police ban on protests; reject Governor Sule’s dubious reelection
Several women in Nasarawa have occupied the State’s capital Lafia to protest their disapproval of the police ban on protests as regards to the conduct of the March 18 governorship election in the state.
Peoples Gazette on Sunday reported that the ban on peaceful protests by the police command in Nasarawa, was with the excuse to curb post-election riots.
“The Nasarawa State Police Command wishes to inform the general public that all forms of protest have been banned throughout the state,” the Nasarawa police spokesman, Abdulrahman Nansel, said in a statement on Sunday. “Therefore, all proposed protests under any guise are hereby prohibited.”
However, protesters who are mostly supporters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), today defied the police to protest INEC’s declaration of Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Nasarawa for a second term.
Governor Sule was declared winner of the March 18 governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Women in the state, on Monday, were sighted across the state capital defying the police ban on peaceful protests, to express their dissatisfaction with the result of the March 18 gubernatorial election in the state.
As at the time of filing this report, effort to confirm the situation from the state police spokesman, Abdulrahman Nansel, was unsuccessful as he was unreachable.
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