IGP Reshuffles Senior Officers Ahead Guber Polls
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba, on Thursday, redeployed some Assistant Inspectors- General of Police to supervise the April 11 gubernatorial and states Houses of Assembly elections.
The redeployment was an addition to an earlier postings of six Deputy Inspectors- General of Police to coordinate police activities in the six geo-political zones of the country.
The affected AIGs were Usman A. Gwary -Abia State, Olufemi Adenaike- Kwara State, Mbu J. Mbu- Ogun State, Patrick Dey Dokumor – Kaduna State, Tambari Y. Muhammed- Jigawa State, Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar- Gombe State, Ikemefuna R. Okoye- Oyo state and Tunde Ogunsakin – Rivers State.
Other Assistant Inspectors – General of Police deployed includes Jubril O. Adeniji -Bauchi State, Yerima Irimiya -Imo State, Baba Adisa Bolanta-Akwa -Ibom State, Lawal Tanko Ballah M –
Nasarawa State, Benue State, Musa Abdulsalam Daura – Edo State, Aderele T. Shinaba- Plateau State and Bala A. Hassan – Sokoto State.
The deployment for election duties also affected the following Commissioners of Police ;Anambra State – CP Sam Okaula, Ekiti State – CP E. J. Ibine, Enugu State – CP Adamu Mohammed, Osun State – CP Valentine Ntomchukwu.
Also, the IGP has deployed a Commissioner of Police to command each of the Senatorial Zones of the following States; Gombe, Bauchi, Imo, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Benue, Edo, Plateau and Sokoto.
