Former IGP Abba Running for Senate Seat

A former Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, is now in the race for a seat in the National assembly after picking up nomination and expression of interest forms.

He picked up the forms at the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, on Monday.

Abba will be contesting for the Jigawa West Senatorial seat.

The primary elections are set to come up on the 27th of September 2018 and Abba said that he plans to win and make a meaningful contribution to the nation.

The ex-IGP was in the news recently when he took a former aide of President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri to task over criticisms from him. He had also threatened to expose him but for Jonathan whom he said would be sad at such a development.

He had said: “Please tell him (Omokri) to leave me alone as a retired police officer. He cannot change the narrative of what I did in office… If I open up, his godfather (Jonathan) will be sad,” he said.

“Reno should keep quiet and leave me alone. He should know that he is talking about a former police IG and a lawyer. I am well informed about my fundamental human rights. It is my right to speak when I choose to.

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“That he was queering why shouldn’t I speak two or six months after leaving office, is not his business. If I can defend the right of others as lawyer, I should be able to defend my own by expressing myself.

“Out of the five IGs his boss worked with, I acted in good conscience. That much is not controvertible. I am proud to say that the police under my watch forced ex-President Jonathan to accept the result of the 2015 poll through our professional conduct.

“It was not the duty of the police to conduct election neither do we vote on election day. I have no regret over my action. Our action gave credibility to the 2015 poll which was widely acknowledged by both the local and international observers.

“For me, that translated into legitimacy for the current government. The practice all over the world is that whenever election is over everyone should work with any government that emerged to move the nation forward. If Reno Omokri is sad that I am in Nigeria relating with a legitimate government, that is his headache.”