In a video clip that went viral on Wednesday, the officer was seen seated on the floor and asking to be taken to the hospital for medical attention while bleeding.
The Police accused Prof Zainab, a legal practitioner and human rights activist, of attempt to commit culpable homicide and intentional insult to cause a breach of trust.
The magistrate also ordered that she should be remanded in Suleja Prison.
Earlier, Prof Zainab Abiola had denied assaulting the officer, saying it was strange that the IGP would forcefully violate “the fundamental rights and liberties of a distinguished law-abiding citizen and proceed to forcefully take her pictures and maliciously publish same in the print and electronic media in this nascent democratic dispensation.”