Despite disrupted meetings and threats of arrest, Nigeria’s G-7 governors said they will not be deterred from their constitutional right to meet, All Africa reports.

That was the message governors conveyed after police stormed their meeting place in Abuja Sunday and demanded they disband. Instead, the meeting continued with police on-site and was rescheduled for a different location the next day.

G-7 is a group of Nigerian governors who broke away from Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and formed the nPDP. The People’s Democratic Party is a political party in Nigeria which lies towards the right of the political spectrum. It has won every presidential election since 1999, and is the dominant party in the Fourth Republic, not without controversy.

The G-7 have not made public exactly what they discussed at the meetings, but in general they are dissatisfied with the decline in overall democratic practices withing the PDP, according to a previous All Africa report.

The G-7 governors include Rotimi Ameachi of Rivers State, Sule Lamido of Jigawa, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto State, Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara and Aliyu Babangida of Niger.

This was the second time in a week that the governors’ meetings have been interrupted by police, who claim to be acting on “orders from above,” according to an All Africa report.

Monday’s 7 p.m. meeting had just begun when four truckloads of police stormed in. The governors’ security details held the police at bay. Hearing the commotion, governors met with the police officer in charge of the Asokoro police, Nnanna Amah, who told them to stop the meeting or face arrest.

Asserting their constitutional right to meet, governors continued their meeting. Amah stayed for a bit, then left, leaving some of his officers behind.

“I see this as an affront not only on me as a person; because as a citizen of this country I have the right to associate, but I see it as an affront on the entire people of Kano State, since I have their mandate as a governor,” said Kwankwaso. “We have not seen this type of thing even in the dark days of the military and it is unfortunate that this thing would be happening in a democracy where the freedom of every individual is guaranteed.”

Meanwhile, according to the Daily Post, Nigeria’s House of Representatives mandated that its Committee on Police Affairs invite the inspector general of police to explain the action of disrupting the governors’ meetings. The committee is due to report back within two weeks.