Gov Wike Narrates Experience With IGP At Edo Election

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu,  ordered him through a mobile call to immediately leave on the eve of the Edo State governorship election.

Wike said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Friday.

The governor, who was the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship campaign, said he asked the IGP why Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State and his Imo State counterpart, Hope Uzodinma, who are members of the All Progressives Congress, were allowed to remain in Edo State but there was no response from the police boss.

Wike said the IGP was crossed with him because he challenged the illegal deduction of the Rivers State financial allocation for the police fund.

The governor said, “The IG never saw me outside. I was inside my room and I got a call from the IG that I must leave Edo State. What surprised me was why should I leave Edo State? I am the chairman of the campaign council and the chairman does not mean that after the campaign, you leave. No, you must monitor what is going on so that at the end of the day, you would be able to write your report.

“I discovered that the IG’s own had nothing to do with the election because I remembered that some time ago my commissioner returned to me from a FAAC meeting and said there were deductions made to the Police Trust Fund.

“I asked who approved it because the police are under the exclusive list and not the concurrent list. I told my attorney-general to challenge it. This angered the IG.”