Withdrawal of police escorts strategy to suffocate opposition – Dele Momodu

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has said that the recent directive to withdraw police escorts from Very Important Personalities, VIPs, is a strategy to suffocate the opposition.

Momodu made this statement on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television.

The publisher of Ovation Magazine stated that only politicians in the country’s capital city should lose police escorts and not ordinary Nigerian.

His comment is coming against the backdrop of the withdrawal of police escorts from Very Important Personalities, VIPs.

Recall that President Bola Tinubu directed that all police escorts attached to VIPs be withdrawn and redeployed to strengthen core policing duties across communities in the country.

Speaking during the programme, the former presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said: “Those who should lose their police escorts are politicians in Abuja, not the ordinary man.

“It is not a crime to be successful, and police escorts should not be taken away from the likes of Dangote and Otedola. Taking away police escorts is part of the plot to suffocate opposition.”