IPAC, Inter-Party Advisory Council on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw soldiers from River State ahead of forthcoming governorship election.
Comrade Kukang Ledum Joseph, a spokesman of IPAC in the state, said this at a press briefing with journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday
Rivers State chapter of IPAC which gave the directive called on Buhari to prevail on the military to stay clear of the state for the survival of democracy in the coming gubernatorial and State Assembly elections.
Joseph said: “We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to order military out of River state ahead of forthcoming governorship election.
“The army has become a threat to peaceful, free and credible elections as well as to the survival of democracy in the state.
“The army should stay away from election duties in the state in order to allow the police to perform their constitutional responsibilities for peaceful and credible elections.”
