Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday decorated Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, as the acting Inspector-General of Police.
Osinbajo performed the ceremony at Aso Presidential Villa in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday appointed Baba acting IGP to replace Mohammed Adamu.
Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammad Dingyadi, announced Baba’s appointment on Tuesday.
President Buhari is currently in London for a medical check-up.
President Buhari had in February extended Adamu’s tenure by three months, following the completion of his mandatory 35 years of service.
But the immediate past IGP had spent only about two months out of the three-month extension when he was unexpectedly sacked on Tuesday.
Adamu was in Owerri, the Imo State capital, to assess the damage done to the state police command headquarters and the Federal prison by suspected gunmen, a day earlier, when the police affairs minister announced his removal and replacement with Baba by the President.
The acting IGP, Baba, was born in 1963. He’s a graduate of the Bayero University, Kano, and the University of Maiduguri. In 1988, he enlisted in the Nigeria Police Force.