The Police in Rivers State on Thursday sealed off the newly inaugurated secretariat of the New Peoples Democratic Party located along Forces Avenue, Port Harcourt.
The secretariat was sealed off less than 20 minutes after its inauguration
Sam Okaula, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, who led the operation, said the police would ensure the maintenance of law and order in the state.
Okaula said anybody who took the laws into his hand would be dealt with.
Okaula said that there was no existing secretariat for a splinter PDP group and that nobody had the right to hoist any flag for them.
He warned that the command would not condone actions capable of causing the breakdown of law and order in the state.
“I want to restore law and order and nobody will be allowed to take the laws into his hand,” he said.
Tony Okocha, the Chief of Staff to Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, said while inaugurating the secretariat of the New PDP that the group had to break away to check the alleged excesses of the old PDP.
Okocha said the New PDP would usher in officers at the state and federal levels to reposition the party.
He called on officers of the party to commence mobilisation of party members to create awareness on its emergence.
Soon after the inauguration and hoisting of the party flag by Okocha, the police swooped on them, dismantled the flags and sealed the secretariat.
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