May 14, 2026

IGP Sulaiman Abba Redeploys Senior Officers For Election Duty

By Farouk Mohammed

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In addition to the deployment of six Deputy Inspector-General of Police to coordinate Police activities in the six geo-political zones, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba, CFR, NPOM, NPM, mnihas deployed Assistant Inspectors-General of Police to supervise the April 11th 2015 gubernatorial elections in the following states listed against their names: See it after the cut…

 

S/NO RANK                    NAME TO
1 AIG USMAN A. GWARY ABIA STATE
2 AIG OLUFEMI ADENAIKE KWARA STATE
3 AIG MBU J. MBU OGUN STATE
4 AIG PATRICK DEY DOKUMOR KADUNA STATE
5 AIG TAMBARI Y. MUHAMMED JIGAWA STATE
6 AIG MOHAMMED JINJIRI ABUBAKAR GOMBE STATE
7 AIG IKEMEFUNA R. OKOYE OYO STATE
8 AIG TUNDE OGUNSAKIN RIVERS STATE
9 AIG JUBRIL O. ADENIJI BAUCHI STATE
10 AIG YERIMA IRIMIYA IMO STATE
11 AIG BABA ADISA BOLANTA AKWA IBOM STATE
12 AIG LAWAL TANKO LAGOS STATE
13 AIG BALLAH M. NASARAWA BENUE STATE
14 AIG MUSA ABDULSALAM DAURA EDO STATE
15 AIG ADERELE T. SHINABA PLATEAU STATE
16 AIG BALA A. HASSAN SOKOTO STATE

 

Following Commissioners of Police were also deployed for election duties to states indicated as follows;

 

  1. Anambra State – CP Sam Okaula

 

  1. Ekiti State – CP E. J.  Ibine

 

  1. Enugu State – CP Adamu Mohammed

 

  1. Osun State – CP Valentine Ntomchukwu

 

Also, the IGP has deployed a Commissioner of Police to command each of the Senatorial Zones of the following States; Gombe, Bauchi, Imo, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Benue, Edo, Plateau and Sokoto.

 

For Rivers State, the following Special Units of the Nigeria Police Force have been deployed to address security concerns. These are; 32 Units of Police Mobile Force (PMF), 4 Units of Counter terrorism Units (CTU), 4 Units of Special Protection Units (SPU) and 6 Crack Teams of Detectives from Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) and complements of Intelligence officers.

 

Ag. CP EMMANUEL C. S. OJUKWU, psc
 FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
FORCE HEADQUARTERS,

ABUJA.

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