Presidency Orders AIG Ogunsakin Out Of Rivers State

The presidency has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, to immediately redeploy Tunde Ogunsakin, an Assistant Inspector General of Police, out of Rivers state, for failing to do the wish of the Peoples Democratic Party chiefs. Premium Times 

The Nigeria Police had on Thursday deployed some of it senior officers to oversee governorship and state assembly elections in states were there are likely to be violence.former police commissioner in the state,Mr. Ogunsakin, who is currently AIG in charge of Zone 6, headquartered in Calabar, was asked to return to Rivers to oversee police deployment for the election there.

However, Mr Ogunsakin left his Calabar base and traveled to Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital on Friday and on getting there he ordered investigations into reports that PDP supporters were thump-printing ballot papers in some locations in the city.

These did not go down well with the presidency who felt the Assistant Inspector General of Police is working with the APC.

“The presidency suspects Ogunsakin has sympathy for Amaechi, and has directed the IGP to send him out of the state with immediate effect,” a presidency source said. “I’m sure he should be on his way to Calabar by now.” 

“He is on his way back to his location because even some PDP members were threatening to attack him if sighted anywhere in town.”