While
the Senators and House members fumed, the Presidency and Abba justified the
deployment of security operatives, saying it was to defend the 1999 Constitution
and prevent a breakdown of law and order.
Abba,
in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said the
police action followed an intelligence report of a likely invasion of the
House by thugs.
He
claimed that in the course of screening the House members and
visitors, Tambuwal arrived with “a motley crowd and assaulted the Police
operatives on duty.”
