While some said the movement had to do with tomorrow’s elections, unconfirmed reports said he was redeployed after he could not ensure that there was no breakdown of law and order in the state.
An AIG, M. J. Gana, has been posted to Ekiti State to oversee affairs and he is also expected to supervise the election into the state House of Assembly on Saturday.
Lakanu was said to have been implicated for allegedly colluding with thugs associated with Governor Ayodele Fayose to attack the 19 APC legislators who were on their way to the legislative Assembly to begin impeachment proceedings against the governor.
It was gathered that the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, on Tuesday, ordered that Lakanu be relieved of his job after investigating a petition detailing the connivance of the state commissioner of police with Governor Fayose.
Supporters of the embattled Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, on Tuesday, as early as 4a. m blocked all the gateways and entry points to the state with luxurious buses and set bonfires on the roads.
In the same vein, the Deputy governor, Mr Olusola Eleka, on Monday, led supporters of the PDP and some hoodlums to block the two major roads leading to the state House of Assembly following indications that the 19 lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were planning to impeach Fayose.
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