Supo Shonibare in police net for parading self as SDP chairman

Temitope Adedeji, Akure

Prominent politician, Chief Supo Shonibare has been arrested and detained by the Police for parading himself as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

He was arrested alongside Sir Patrick Anethua and detained at the FCT Police Command, Garki, Abuja around 11am on Wednesday.

They were still being held down as at 4pm at the FCT Police Command.

They were arrested at the Merit House, Abuja, where the accused persons and some others were purported to be holding a meeting as the National Executives of the SDP without any recognition as such by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other legal authorities.

The party had earlier in a statement disowned him as its chairman.

Shonibare was accused of attempting to be selling nomination forms to would-be aspirants.

The accused was alleged to have been marketing himself to the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in the event of the latter being dissatisfied with the outcome of the presidential primaries of the party.

Meanwhile, the lawful National Executives of the SDP had concluded state congresses and gotten approval of INEC to conduct it’s presidential, national and state primaries across the country.