The presidency has countered the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, on the postings of some senior police officers.
Contrary to an earlier announcement by the police high command which redeployed Tunde Ogunsakin, an Assistant Inspector General of Police to Rivers State, the presidency and has ordered the immediate redeployment of Ogunsakin back to his base in Calabar, Cross Rivers State.
The presidency, according to sources ordered Ogunsakin out for allegedly failing to do the bidding of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Based on the IGP’s directive, Ogunsakin left his Calabar base and travelled to Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, Friday and on arrival, he reportedly ordered investigations into reports that PDP supporters were thump-printing ballot papers in some locations in the city.
“He also ordered that some thugs being positioned to foment trouble be restrained,” a source in the Rivers State Command of the Police said.
Our sources said the AIG rebuffed all efforts by the presidency and the PDP to get him to work for the PDP candidate, Nyesom Wike, in the election.
“The presidency suspects Ogunsakin has sympathy for Amaechi, and has directed the IGP to send him out of the state with immediate effect.
Ogunsakin could not be reached to comment for this story but one of his close aides who spoke with our correspondent on telephone, confirmed that the AIG and his personal staff have indeed returned to Calabar.
“Anyway, as I speak with you, we are back in Calabar,” said the aide who also expressed deep concern that the counter directive could aggravate the already tensed political situation in the volatile state.
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