APC rejects appointment of Naja’atu as police coordinator in N’West for elections

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has rejected the appointment of Naja’atu Bala Muhammad as the North West Coordinator of police affairs for the February 25 and March 11 elections.

The Police Service Commission had appointed Muhammad as one of the coordinators to supervise the conduct of police officers during the general elections.

However, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Festus Keyamo on Monday, the campaign council demanded Naja’atu’s withdrawal from the role immediately.

The statement read: “We are deeply shocked and appalled to read a release by the Police Service Commission appointing one of its most partisan members, Naja’atu Bala Muhammad as a North West coordinator of the Presidential Election. In that role, she is expected to move about freely, supervising the conduct of Police Officers during the election.

“With the well-documented activities, actions and vitriol of Naja’atu in the last few weeks against our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (after being shown the door out of the APC as a mole), we venture to say that this appointment is not only callous, it is insensitive, openly confrontational and consequently unacceptable by the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council.

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“Coming at a time when President Muhammadu Buhari is constantly assuring and reassuring the world of free, fair and credible elections, it confirms our worst fears that there are functionaries of government that are actively working with the opposition to thwart the avowed commitment of Mr. President.

“We need not emphasise that the role given to Naja’atu requires a honest and unbiased individual who will discharge the duties diligently and without reproach. The nation will not get that from Naja’atu.

“We therefore demand for the immediate withdrawal of the name of Naja’atu Bala Muhammad as a coordinator of the Police Service Commission for the North West or any region for that matter.

“She has an inalienable right to continue to campaign for any candidate of her choice and to vote for that candidate, but she cannot be given a garment to wear at this time that is meant only for neutrals.”

Naja’atu had recently resigned her position as a director in the APC Presidential Campaign Council, saying she could no longer support Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

She also mocked the former Lagos State Governor’s ill-health and insisted he was unfit to lead the most populous African country.

Few days after her resignation, the former APC member visited the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, at his residence.

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