In
a move believed to have been targeted at ensuring that a top Deputy Inspector
General of Police who is more favoured to succeed the incumbent is destabilised,
Police authorities have posted the him out of Abuja. The Inspector General of
Police, we gathered personally ensured the posting was done to move the said
Deputy Inspector General of Police away from his former duty post to another
post where he would be out of limelight and would not eb able to press the
buttons that could influence his appointment as a successor to the incumbent
IG, Mohammed Abubakar.
This
is coming on the heels of the impending retirement of the incumbent IG whose
tenure expires in the next coming months. Abujareport.com gathered that since
he started lobbying for extension of his term, Mohammed Abubakar has been
meeting stiff resistance from those close to the President as feelers from the
Villa indicated there was the need for a new hand who would greatly transform
the Police. This is more so since the heads of the various other forces have
been changed except that of the Police force. Mohammed Abubakar has however not
given up as he has decided to fight till the last.
It
was in the process of digging into likely successors among his subordinates
that the case of the Deputy Inspector General of Police who is presently being
victimised came to the fore. The Deputy Inspector General of Police in question’s
‘offence’ according to our source, is that he is believed to be very close to
the newly appointed Defence Minister as well as the National Security Adviser.
Abujareporter.com was reliably informed that
the DIG’s two top aides who have been with him for close to ten years were
given new postings a few days ago. The sudden transfer of his driver of nine years to a South
West state, withdrawal of one of his orderlies and subsequent transfer out of
Abuja among other issues around him are being viewed by his sympathisers in the
system as an alleged clampdown on him by the leadership.
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