Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers
State has said the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, ordering
him to leave Edo State on the eve of the September 19 governorship election was
vendetta over his (Wike’s) role in preventing the “abduction” of a former NDDC
boss and his stance on the state’s contribution to the Police Trust Fund.
According to Wike, the IGP called him on the
telephone and ordered him to leave Edo immediately, but that the police boss
could not respond when he asked why Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State
and Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, members of All Progressives Congress,
APC, were allowed to remain in Edo State.
Wike, Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP’s governorship campaign council for the election, said
this on Channels TV programme on Friday.
In his words: “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.
“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 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.”
Also, he said: “When our sister,
Joi Nunieh (the former NDDC Acting MD), was to be abducted, IG was not happy
about my intervention.
“He called me and I asked him how
could you allow a woman to be taken away at 4a.m. knowing the security
situation in the country today? Why didn’t you invite her?”
Wike said he does not regret his
action, because the police were wrong to have attempted to arrest her Nunieh
the day she was to give evidence at the National Assembly.
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