The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has strongly opposed the federal government’s ongoing legislative push to establish state police, explicitly arguing that the current All Progressives Congress (APC) administration lacks the absolute credibility and public trust required to execute such a sensitive, deep-rooted security reform. In an official press statement released by the PRP National Chairman, Comrade Aliyu Muhammadu Bello, the party expressed deep systemic concern over the administration’s aggressive rush to decentralize policing despite widespread, valid national anxieties regarding potential political abuse by state governors. While the PRP fully acknowledged the urgent necessity for a comprehensive overhaul of Nigeria’s failing security architecture to combatively address worsening banditry, terrorism, and kidnapping, it maintained that the present government has completely failed to efficiently manage or fund existing federal law enforcement institutions. According to the opposition party, the sudden move to engineer state police under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s watch raises heavy suspicion, and the complex structural change should be completely suspended and deferred until after the next general elections have safely established a fresh threshold of democratic credibility and popular acclaim. The PRP urgently called on the Federal Government to prioritize immediate, practical solutions to end the daily security nightmare faced by Nigerians and drastically improve citizen safety through localized military and police collaboration, rather than pursuing highly divisive structural alterations that state executives could easily weaponize against opposition voices and civic activists.
