Facts have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari may have concluded plans to appoint an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Abubakar Adamu Mohammed as the new Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to replace outgoing IGP Idris Ibrahim, who officially retires on Tuesday.
Ibrahim Idris met with the president at the State House on Monday afternoon to bid him farewell, which has become a routine for retiring IGP in recent times. Source had said that President Buhari had to succumb to pressure to drop the idea of extending the tenure of the Idris who many accused of corruption and partisanship for the president.
Many had suggested that Idris could be used by Buhari to allegedly rig the 2019 elections. However, if the President goes ahead to appoint a new IGP which is looking more likely, he would have doused such speculation.
The would-be IGP Mohammed hails from Nasarawa State, and he is also widely known within police circles as Adamu Mohammed Lafia, in reference to his place of birth, which is the Nasarawa State capital.
Mohammed was born on November 9, 1961 joined the police in 1986 with a Bachelors degree in geography. The new IGP would have to wait for an official announcement on Tuesday.
He was at one time a director of peacekeeping operations. He was a former police commissioner in Enugu and was an AIG in charge of Zone 5.
Mohammed was brought from the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau state.
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