POWER-PLAY AS IGP POSTS ASPIRING SUCCESSOR OUT OF ABUJA

-Clamps Down On His Aides Too

In a move, 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, Alhaji Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, it was gathered, personally ensured the posting was done to move the Deputy Inspector General of Police from his former duty post to where he would be out of limelight and would not be able to press the buttons that could influence his appointment as a successor to the incumbent IG.

This development is coming on the heels of the impending retirement of MD Abubakar, whose tenure expires in the next coming months. Sources disclosed that since he started lobbying for the extension of his term, the IG has been meeting stiff resistance from those close to the President, as feelers from Aso-Rock, indicated there was the need for a new hand who would greatly transform the Police. This is coupled with the fact, that other heads of various forces have been changed, except that of the Police force. However, it is gathered that Mohammed Abubakar has refused to give 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.

The ELITES gathered that two close aides of the DIG,  who had been with him for ten years, were given new postings a few days ago.  His driver, who had been working for him for nine years, was also transferred to a state in the South-West. One of the DIG's orderlies was also withdrawn and subsequently posted out of Abuja. These and some other issues bordering on the DIG's soaring career, are being viewed by his sympathisers in the system, as an alleged clampdown on him by leadership of the Police Force.