Buhari meets IGP Idris behind closed doors

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday had a meeting with the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Their meeting came on the heels of news of security operatives laying siege on the homes of the Senate President and his Deputy, Senators Bukola Saraki, and Ike Ekweremadu respectively, on Tuesday morning.

Earlier, the Police had on Monday re-summoned Saraki for questioning over the recent Offa bank robbery, that left many people dead.

On Tuesday, police had threatened to use all legal means to get Saraki, after the Senate President failed to honour the invitation but chose to attend the plenary of the Senate, over which he presided.

The agenda of the meeting is still unknown, especially as Idris refused to speak with State House correspondents after the meeting and the Presidency is yet to say anything about it.

Meanwhile speculations are that the IGP must have used the opportunity to intimate Buhari of the developments.

There are also beliefs that Buhari, may have summoned the IGP over police failure to play its part effectively in an alleged plot to impeach Saraki and Ekweremadu on Tuesday.

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Ripples Nigeria had gathered that the police was to invite Saraki for an interview over his alleged linkage to the Offa Bank robbery while the EFCC was to bring Ekweremadu in, at the same time, for questioning in an investigation into alleged abuse of office and money laundering by the EFCC against him.

It was learnt that Saraki and Ekweremadu would have ended up being detained while a group of senators involved in the plot, would have installed Senator Ahmed Lawan, from Yobe State, as the Senate President.

 

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