By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has asked the Nigeria Police to immediately release the spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), Ikenga Ugochinyere.
Ugochinyere was arrested allegedly at the instance of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.
The CUPP spokesman had alleged that $10 million was offered to members of the House of Representatives as bribe to pass the controversial infectious bill which Gbajabiamila sponsored.
Ugochinyere had obtained an order of a federal high court in Abuja which barred the police and the Department of State Services from arresting him after a resolution by the lawmakers which ordered his arrest.
In a tweet, Atiku said it was wrong to resort to a rule of the Jungle.
“We are a nation governed by the rule of law and not of the jungle. Tyranny and dictatorship are inimical to a democratic order. I hereby call for the immediate release of the spokesman of CUPP, Barrister Ikenga Ugochinyere,”he said.
