Breaking: Buhari Picks New IGP, Adamu, as Idris Retires

Segun Atanda/

President Muhammadu Buhari has found a replacement for Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris who is retiring from the service tomorrow.

Idris, who clocks 60 years on January 15 paid “a bye-bye visit’’ to Buhari today at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Idris is expected to retire from service on attainment of the mandatory 35 years in service or 60 years of age.

NewsmakersNG exclusively learnt that the President made his choice today from a list of names of officers presented to him.

The chosen one, AIG Abubakar Adamu Mohammed mni, who hails from Lafia in Nasarawa State, according to sources from the Presidency would be announced tomorrow.

AIG Adamu was brought from the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, in Jos, Plateau State. He had also served as AIG in charge of Zone 5, Benin City.

Born on November 9, 1961, the new IGP enlisted in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in 1986.

Mohammed, who holds a BSc in Geography, was once a commissioner of police in Enugu State, a deputy commissioner of police in Ekiti State and he had served at the Interpol and the FCIID, Alagbon for some years before he became AIG.

He had also served as a Director of Peace Keeping Operations.

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