Nigeria, Feb. 16 -- The Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, rejected an application to restrain Mohammed Adamu, from parading himself as the Inspector-General Police.

Mr Adamu attained the maximum 35 years in service on February 1, but got a controversial three-month extension of his tenure by President Muhammadu on February 3.

Maxwell Opara, who filed a suit to have the extension cancelled had on February 11 filed an ex parte application for an order to stop Mr Adamu from functioning as the IGP. The court, meanwhile, was looking into the broader question of the validity of the three-month tenure extension.

The judge, Ahmed Mohammed, heard and dismissed the ex parte application on Tuesday.

After listening to Mr Opara's lawyer, Ugoch...