The Police Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, has confirmed Usman Alkali Baba as Inspector General of Police (IGP).
The Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the meeting, saying Baba was unanimously confirmed.
President Buhari had, on April 6, appointed Baba as acting Inspector General of Police.
Those in attendance of the meeting included Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; chairman of the Governors’ Forum and Ggovernor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha.
Others were the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari,; the Ministers of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi; Interior, Ra’uf Aregbesola; Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammed Bello, and the chairman, Police Service Commission (PSC), Musiliu Smith.
Baba was a Deputy Inspector General of Police before his promotion.
