Ex Chief security officer to Tinubu, Kayode Egbetokun a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been appointed as the new Commissioner of Police in Lagos state.
Igbere TV newsmen gathered that the now Ex Commissioner of police in the state, Edgal Imohimi, was redeployed on Sunday, January 13 to held the force headquarters in Abuja.
Sources told Igbere TV reporters that Imohimi, who is rumored to be an ally of Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, was “fired from Lagos” because he did not provide adequate security for the people at the APC governorship rally, which was held in Ikeja last week.
At the rally, Musiliu Akinsanya, a strong member of the party and treasurer of the National Union Road Transport Workers (NURTW), popularly known as “MC Oluomo”, was stabbed by rival factions of the party, while some journalists were also shot, IgbereTv reports.
Egbetokun was Tinubu’s CSO for a few years before he became the commandant of Police Training School, Ikeja, Lagos.
The new commissioner was also the commander of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos, from 2005 to 2007.
Edgal Imohimi was deployed to Lagos state on August 31, 2017, after serving as the deputy commissioner of police in charge of Operations in the state.
IgbereTv newsmen were able to gathered that he will now head the explosive ordinance unit of the police force in Abuja, the country’s capital.
