The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has kicked against what it termed unconventional manner at which the implementation of the Appeal Court judgment on local government councils in Imo State was executed.

The party condemned what it termed the hasty manner by which the police moved to “dislodge the activities in the local councils in Imo State without due regard to laid down legal procedures.”

Police had assisted the reinstated councils’ chiefs to have access to their offices after an Appeal Court declared their sack by Governor Rochas Okorocha as a nullity.

However, the party, in a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Benard Akoma, said it was regrettable that the action of the police came on the heel of an appeal by Imo State government against the judgment.

The statement reads: “More worrisome is that while the appeal and motion for notice of stay of execution of the judgment have been served the appropriate quarters, the police ignored all these and continued to pursue execution of a judgment whose appeal is before a Supreme Court, the highest court of the land.

“It is a known fact in law that whenever a motion for stay of execution is pending before a court of competent jurisdiction, all parties are expected to remain in status-quo.

“We wish to state that the party  has never been served with any drawn-up order nor forms 48 and 49 which, ordinarily, are necessary warnings about consequences of disobedience as to empower the police to enforce the judgment by force.

“APGA in Imo State therefore cannot be said to have breached any judgment of the court as to warrant police invasion of the local councils on the guess of enforcing court judgment.”