PSC bows to APC pressure, drops Najaatu Muhammad.
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has replaced Naja’atu Muhammad as its coordinator for the North-west zone after the protest by the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement released on Tuesday, the PSC’s head of press and public relations, Ikechukwu Ani, said that Ms. Najaatu Muhammad has been replaced by Bawa Lawal, a retired assistant inspector general of police from the North-West.
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The commission merely named its national, zonal, and state coordinators, who will be in charge of keeping an eye on how police officers do their jobs during elections.
But on Monday, Festus Keyamo, the spokesman for the APC campaign council, said in a statement that Ms. Muhammad’s appointment as PSC coordinator for the North-West was wrong and that she should be fired.
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The campaign said that Ms. Muhammad’s appointment was heartless, insensitive, and openly hostile, so the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council did not agree with it.
In response to the APC’s statement, Mr. Ani said that the commission cares about Nigeria and has decided to replace Ms. Muhammad as a result.
“The Commission wants to say with all sense of responsibility that its Commissioners who represent different geopolitical zones have always supervised Commission assignments in the geopolitical zones they represent. The current national assignment was the same.
“The Commission will always pay attention to what Nigerians want and will keep doing what it can to keep the country’s democracy strong.
“It wants to say again that it is committed to free and fair elections in 2023, and that the police, as the main agency in charge of internal security, which includes election security, will do its job according to the law,” the statement said.
Before she joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to support Atiku Abubakar for president, Ms. Muhammad was a director on the APC campaign council.
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After she quit the campaign, she said in interviews that APC candidate Bola Tinubu has no plan for the North and isn’t fit enough to be president.
In response, the APC campaign said that Ms. Muhammad was fired because she wasn’t good enough at her job. Also, she was said to be a mole.
