The House of Representatives has on Tuesday summoned the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed, to appear before its Committee on Police Affairs to defend police action of invading the meeting of G-7 Governors and some members of the National Assembly.

Deciding on this summon on Tuesday, the House condemned the reported invasion of the Kano Governor’s lodge by men and officers of the Nigeria Police on Sunday night where some rebel governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some lawmakers were reportedly meeting over the crisis in the party.

Leading debate on the motion, Honourable Idris Sani Kutigi, on behalf of 61 others, described the action of the police as gross disregard and breach of the 1999 constitution which they swore to uphold.

According to him, “on Sunday 3rd November, 2013 when the G-7 Governors and members of the National Assembly were holding a meeting at the Kano State Government lodge, Asokoro, the Divisional Police Officer, Asokoro division, stormed the lodge midway into the meeting with instructions from the villa to disperse or arrest the governors if they refused to stop the meeting.”

Honourable Kutigi noted that the meeting was convened to fashion out a lasting solution to the lingering crises in the PDP, stressing that, the police authorities have in recent times disrupted several meetings of these governors by sealing the meeting venues.

He said that “a police officer of the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police boldly attempted to arrest and disrupt the meeting of the G-7 Governors in disregard to their constitutional immunity in section 308 of the 1999 constitution.”