The Nigerian Bar Association and the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, on Saturday, berated the police over the arrest of three lawyers in the state.
Nigerian Bar Association and the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, on Saturday, berated the police over the arrest of three lawyers in the state.
The arrest came 48 hours after Cole led the party executives to the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission to protest against refusal to him release Certified True Copies of documents used for the election as ordered by the court. “I, the party agent and our lead counsel went there and we were kept for over an hour. We didn’t see them, only to be told that they had been transferred to the state CID .
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