Police claims crude lies, laughable –Saraki

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Friday night responded to the statement issued by the police.

Saraki, in the statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, dismissed as lies, the claims made by the police.

The statement read in part, “After carefully reading the Police statement, one cannot but describe the claims made in it as laughable, crude and another low point in the posture of the police against the opposition in the country.”

Olaniyonu explained that the protest was held “in exercise of their constitutional right of assembly, expression and movement.”

The statement further read, “We wanted to send a clear signal that such official subversion of the will of the people in favour of the APC should not be repeated in the 2019 elections.”