Edo Election: Why The IGP Asked Me To Leave Edo – Gov. Wike

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed why the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, asked
him to leave Edo State in a telephone conversation on the eve of the governorship election.

Governor Wike who was a chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship campaign in Edo had alleged that more than 100 policemen laid siege at the hotel where Wike and other PDP governors stayed on the eve of Edo polls.

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In an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme called Sunrise Daily on Friday, Wike said he perceived the IGP was upset with him because he challenged the illegal deduction of the Rivers State financial allocation for the police fund.

Wike further stated that the police boss was angry with him for obstructing the arrest of a former acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission Joi Nunieh.

Wike said;
“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. What surprised me was why should I 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 to me from a FAAC meeting and said there were deductions made to the Police Trust Fund.

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“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.”