The redeployment of police commissioners was followed by the deployment of the deputy inspectors general of Police to the six geo-political zones to take charge of, and supervise security operations in the geo-political zones.
The inspector general himself and the DIG in charge of operations, Alhaji Audu Abubakar, will co-ordinate security operations from Abuja.
investigations revealed that the redeployment of the police commissioners took many of the State governors by surprise as some of them were said to have been pressurizing the IG in the past few weeks to drop the idea of changing the commissioners arguing that it might affect security strategies for the elections in their states.
Ringim’s strategy
A determined Hafiz Ringim who had all along promised that the Police would ensure that all votes count and that he was ready to make security of the elections the best so far, kept his strategy to his chest until yesterday.
The new postings are, CP Saliu Hashimu, Oyo State; CP Suleiman Abba, Lagos State; CP Baba Adisa Bolanta, Delta State; CP Bala Nasarawa, Cross River State; CP Michael Zuokumor, Borno State; CP Olayinka Balogun, Ogun State; CP Haruna John, Kaduna State; CP Emmanuel Ayeni, Plateau State; CP Samson Wudah, FCT; and CP Mammam Tchafe, Kwara State.
Others are CP Tambari Yaro, Imo State; CP Sabo Ringim, Ekiti State; CP Yakubu Alkali, Rivers State; CP Musa A Daura, Adamawa State; CP Orubebe Ebikome, Edo State; CP Aliyu Musa, Taraba State; CP Sani Magaji, Benue State; CP Ibrahim Mohammed, Katsina State; CP Obiakor Emmanuel, Nasarawa State; CP Abdurahman Akano, Jigawa State; CP David Omojola, Yobe State; and CP Adenrele Chinaba, Bayesa State.
Also redeployed are CP Felix Uyana, Akwa Ibom State; CP A. J. Abakasanga, Bauchi State; CP Peter Gana, Osun State; CP Bala Hassan, Niger State; CP Ibrahim Maishanu, Abia State; CP Muktar Ibrahim, Enugu State; CP Da’azumi Doma, Kano State; CP Adeola Adeniji, Ebonyi State; CP Adamu Hassan, Kebbi State; CP Fatai Adio Stittu, Kogi State; CP Olusegun Solomon, Sokoto State; CP Joseph Ibbi, Ondo State; CP Mohammed Indabawa, Anambra State; CP Mohammed J Abubakar, Zamfara State; and CP Suleiman Lawal, Gombe State.
Deployment of DIGs
The DIG second in command to IGP, Mrs. Ivy Uche Okoronkwo is responsible for the South East Zone, DIG ‘A’ Azubuko Udah is responsible for North Central geopolitical zone, DIG ‘D’Ganiyu Daudu is responsible for South West geopolitical zone; DIG ‘F’ Mohammed Yesufu, is responble for South_South; DIG ‘C’ Saleh Abubakar is responsible for North East, while DIG ‘Training’ Yusuf Abubakar is responsible for North West geopolitical zone.
Meanwhile the Police in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has said that 17, 000 personnel would be deployed for the Saturday, National Assembly elections in the territory.
The FCT Police Command made the disclosure in a chat with newsmen at the end of meeting of the Joint Intelligence Consultative Committee on Election Security, yesterday, at the command headquarters in Abuja
The redeployed CP of the Command Haruna John who was also chairman of the committee that has representatives of all the security agencies involved in the general elections as well as the FCT Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the National Youth Service Corps, said the personnel would be drawn from all the agencies.
He said all was set in terms of security arrangements for the polls, pointing out that the committee had used lessons learnt from past elections to establish guidelines of operation for the agencies during the polls.
The Police boss said the committee was committed to ensuring that it would be successfully implemented, even as he said that areas to be covered by each agency had already been determined.
Members of the armed forces who are expected to deploy not less than 1, 000, the chairman said would be responsible for manning the entry and exit points into the territory as well as the presidency and other major facilities in the FCT.
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