FG wrong to extend IGP’s tenure –Ozekhome

Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was wrong to extend the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu.

Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, on Thursday, announced that the President extended the tenure of Adamu for three months having reached the mandatory retirement age.

Ozekhome described the President’s action as, “unconstitutional, illegal, unlawful, questionable, arbitrary, whimsical, capricious”.

The senior advocate spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme monitored by The PUNCH.

He said, “The President was wrong, the President was wrong and the President was wrong to have purportedly extended the tenure of office of Mr Adamu. That he was going to retire on the 1st of February was not a surprise, everybody knows that he was born in 1961, everybody knows that he joined the Nigeria Police Force 35 years ago.

“Did you not see what happened in America that we modeled our democracy after? Before Biden was sworn in on the 20th of January, he had already assembled his cabinet, a rainbow coalition, a Dolly Parton’s coat of many colours. By their features you will see them –Blacks, Hispanics, Americans, Jews, Chinese, Russians, Arabs, African-Americans.

“Why do we always wait till the last moment to begin to adopt the fire brigade approach and then do the things that are unconstitutional, illegal, unlawful, questionable, arbitrary, whimsical, capricious as the present act of Mr President has done. Don’t Mr President’s handlers know that they are embarrassing Mr President and Nigeria? Punch