· Northern leaders lobby to influence choice of successor · 23 DIGs, AIGs may go Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja Will President Muhammadu Buhari replace the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, who is billed to retire today after clocking 35 years in service or extend his tenure? The answers hung in the balance yesterday as the presidency kept mum over the fate of Adamu and his would-be successor. Although efforts by THISDAY to know the next step in the management of the police with Adamu’s impending retirement from presidential spokespersons, Mr. Femi Adesina and Malam Garba Shehu, proved abortive, a presidency source said the situation was fluid as the president could take a decision between last night and today on the matter.