The Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has spoken about why and how three lawyers handling the All Progressives Congress (APC) election petition were arrested alongside five others in Port Harcourt, the state capital. SaharaReporters had reported that the three legal practitioners namely Jerry Aondo, Dr Sobere Nelson and Odum Eyiba, who were part of the legal team of the governorship candidate of the APC in the March 18 governorship poll, Tonye Cole, were in the state to file an election petition before the police swooped in on them.