The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and Senator Ben Murray-Bruce have dragged the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to court.

Inspector-General of Police, Idris Ibrahim

The move was over their invitation by the Nigeria Police.

Thelagostimes recalls that PDP leaders, including the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, senator Dino Melaye, Senator Ben Bruce and the national chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, led protesters to the headquarter of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja.

Dino Melaye and Murray-Bruce in confrontation with the police during the PDP protest

They had demanded that INEC declare PDP candidate Ademola Adeleke as winner of the Osun State Governorship election held recently.

Meanwhile, the police had invited only Melaye and Murray-Bruce to appear before the Federal Capital Territory Command over alleged assaults on its men and destruction of its property.

The lawmakers, however, failed to answer the invitation. Instead, they are praying the court to, among others, direct the defendants to “jointly and severally pay the applicants the sum of N500m only, same being the pecuniary and exemplary damages arising from the humiliation, intimidation, harassment and unlawful attempt to arrest the applicants by the agents of the second respondent (Commissioner of Police).”

Court papers seen by Thelagostimes on Monday showed that the suit, with Number FHC/ABJ/03/095/2018, was filed by Mahmud Abubakar Magaji, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, on behalf of the lawmakers.

The court papers are below: