The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris has claimed that the suit filed by the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, challenging the (probe: thorough investigation into a crime or other matter) into the killings and violence during the rerun election in the state was intended to cover his misdeeds. Idris added that Wike’s move to investigate the violence, for which he is being investigated, was a desperate move to shatter the outcome of the probe by the IGP’s Special Investigating Panel, SIP. The Inspector General made the claim through the notice of preliminary or preceding objection against the suit filed by the governor at the Federal High Court in Abuja. An objection filed on behalf of the IGP by Femi Falana, SAN, maintained that the Judicial Commission of Enquiry set up by Wike had no power to look into the crimes committed during the rerun election in Rivers and prosecute the culprits. According to him, pursuant to Section 150 of the Electoral Act, the crimes committed during the rerun were federal offences, which could not be investigated and prosecuted by the plaintiffs. The suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/13/2017, filed by Mike Ozekhome, SAN, for the plaintiffs, has Wike and the …