On January 9, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP) to relocate to Benue state where clashes between farmers and herdsmen had resulted in over 70 deaths.<\/p>\n
Idris travelled to Benue for one day and delegated delegated Joshiak Habila, DIG operations, as he returned back to Abuja.<\/p>\n
Five days later, pictures of IGP Idris surfaced on social media cutting a birthday cake on the occasion of his 59th birthday.<\/p>\n
Sadly, the Benue state recorded more killings after his departure but the smiles on the face of the number one police officer showed\u00a0that he had a pleasant moment.<\/p>\n
When Buhari visited\u00a0Benue over two months later, he was told that Idris did not spend up to 24 hours in the north-central state.<\/p>\n
Responding, Buhari said he was surprised by the reports that Idris did not comply with his order.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not aware that the I-G did not spend 24 hours in the state as directed by me, I am getting to know in this meeting,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n
Ayo Fayose, governor of Ekiti and fierce\u00a0critic of the president, saw that as an avenue to fire yet another shot at the president.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat manner of a President will give order to the IGP on January 9, only to be telling Nigerians on March 12 (2 months after) that he never knew that the IGP disobeyed his order?\u201d Fayose asked, obviously taunting Buhari.<\/p>\n
source: TheCable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On January 9, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP) to relocate to Benue state where clashes between farmers and herdsmen had resulted in over 70 deaths. Idris travelled to Benue for one day and delegated delegated Joshiak Habila, DIG operations, as he returned back to Abuja. Five days later, pictures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,66],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n