Breaking: IGP Adamu Gets Extension |The Source

By Adesina Soyooye

President Muhammadu Buhari has granted a three-month extension, in office, to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu.

In doing that, Buhari put a lie to all the speculations and stories about him appointing  an AIG to take over from Adamu,or asking him to hand over to the next in rank to him.

Announcing the extension granted Adamu to State House Correspondents, the Minister for Police Affairs, Muhammadu Dingyadi, said it was to give Mr President time to make an appropriate  choice.

It is not known why it took the President this long, to announce an extension, or why, since a couple of months ago, he did not zero in on Adamu’s successor.

Adamu was billed to retire since February 1, 2020, the day he clocked 35 years in office. But the President’s silence forced him to continue in office as usual.

Speculations were rife that there was a lobby for his extension in office. That has become a reality.

What is not known, yet, is whether the extension was also granted to the DIGs  billed to retire with him on February the 1st. Reports say they had stopped going to the office. It is also not known if the Police Service Commission, PSC, had given  them a letter of retirement or not.

In recent times, Adamu is the only IGP granted an extension. However, President Buhari has a habit of granting extension in office. He did so, for years, to the now replaced Service Chiefs, just as he did to a couple of heads of paramilitary services.