We hear Presidency has kicked out AIG Ogunsakin from Rivers state

by Ranti Joseph

The Nigerian presidency has ordered the immediate redeployment of Tunde Ogunsakin, an Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, out of Rivers state, for allegedly failing to cooperate with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Nigeria Police had on Thursday deployed senior police officers to oversee governorship and state assembly elections in states considered as the likely flash-points on Saturday.

Ogunsakin, a former police commissioner in the state, and currently AIG in charge of Zone 6, headquartered in Calabar,was asked to return to Rivers to oversee police deployment for the election there.

Based on the IGP’s directive, Ogunsakin left his Calabar base and travelled to Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, Friday.

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 should be restrained”, a source in the Rivers State Command of the Police said.

It was reported that 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. I’m sure he should be on his way to Calabar by now,” a presidency source said.

A top police officer at the Rivers Police Command however confirmed that Ogunsakin hurried out of Port Harcourt Saturday morning following directives from the presidency.

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

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