The Police Service Commission (PSC) has revoked the appointment of Hajiya Naja’atu Mohammed, as one of the 45 member team assigned to supervise the conduct of police officers during the 2023 general elections.
Muhammed was listed by the PSC as one of those to monitor the police officers during the election.
Shortly after that, the All Progressives Congress (APC) reportedly protested her inclusion for the top assignment in view of her bias views against Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC.
The party In a statement on Monday issued by the Director of Public Affairs and Spokesman of the APC campaign council, Festus Keyamo, described Naja’atu’s appointment as callous and insensitive, urging PSC to withdraw her appointment immediately.
Keyamo further stated that the appointment was openly confrontational and consequently unacceptable to the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council.
A few hours after APC’s reaction, the PSC announced that it had asked a former Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Bawa Lawal (rtd), who is from the same geopolitical zone as Commissioner Najatu, to take over the coordination of the monitoring of Police Conduct in the zone.
The spokesman of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani, confirmed the development to newsmen on Monday evening stating that “the commission will always be sensitive to the wishes of Nigerians and will continue to contribute its quota to the sustenance of the nation’s democracy.”
The PSC official said: “The Commission wishes to state with all sense of responsibility that its commissioners representing different geopolitical zones have always supervised assignments of the commission in the geopolitical zones they represent. It was the same with the present national assignment.
“It wishes to restate its commitment to a free and fair 2023 elections where the Police as the lead Agency in internal security which includes election policing will discharge its duties according to the dictates of the law,” Daily Trust quoted Ani.
Naja’atu ,a former Director of the Civil Society directorate of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) resigned her appointment and hurriedly embraced the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
Since then she had spared no time in public vituperation of her former Boss Tinubu.
