Ekiti police commissioner redeployed

The Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, has
been redeployed, it was learnt on Thursday.
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, M. J. Gana, it was
learnt, has been directed to take charge of the state during
the elections and until violence in the state subsides.
In an interview with our correspondent in Ado Ekiti on
Thursday, the State Publicity Secretary of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Joseph Adaraniwon, said "We have no
problem with the deployment. The power to redeploy is with
the Police authorities."
The State Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress,
Taiwo Olatubosun, could not be reached for comments.
Ekiti State has been embroiled in crisis immediately after the
declaration of the candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as the winner of
the March 28 Presidential election.
Gunmen last Wednesday in Ekiti attacked the APC Secretariat
and jubilant members of the party.
The APC petitioned the Inspector General of Police,
Suleiman Abba, over attacks on its members in Erijiyan Ekiti
by thugs allegedly loyal to the People's Democratic Party on
the eve of Saturday's Presidential election.
The petition signed by the State Secretary of the party, Paul
Omotoso, was also sent to National Human Rights
Commission, Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone
Eight in Lokoja,
Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, and State Director of
Department of State Services, Samuel Tamuno.
There is also a raging controversy over who killed one
Modupe Olaiya who died during the wild protest by
members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Efon-Alaaye in
Ekiti on Tuesday.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, in a petition to the IGP,
accused a lawmaker of firing the shot that killed the
deceased.
He alleged that the APC lawmakers were escorted by five
fully armed mobile policemen, who he later discovered to
have been brought from MOPOL 20 in Lagos State.