Expect more peaceful elections in 2015, says AIG
The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of security in the Ekiti State governorship election, Ballah Nasarawa, verbally expresses elections in Nigeria could only get more preponderant.
He verbally expressed the police had got their acts right and assured Nigerians of more placid environment in the 2015 general elections.
A verbalization in Lagos on Wednesday verbally expressed the AIG, who reviewed the Ekiti State election, integrated, “On behalf of the Inspector-General of Police, I optate to emphatically state that the standard witnessed in the conduct of a halcyon and orderly Ekiti State Governorship election 2014, should be considered as a demonstration of the commitment and readiness of the Nigeria Police Force in ascertaining the conduct of a very tranquil, credible and acceptable 2015 general elections in our country.”
The police ascendant figure, who withal heads the Zone 9 Police Command, declared that there was no hanky panky in Ekiti State.
He admonished those who he verbalized might want “to cause disorderliness in the state after the election” to have a rethink.
He verbalized, “Those individuals or group of people in Ekiti State who plan to disrupt public placidity in any component of the state are hereby admonished to desist or else face the full wrath of the law.
“The police are still around and are not in a hurry to leave Ekiti State. So the state remains much secured even in this post-election period.”
The AIG expounded that to make the election placid, the police, on the orders of the Inspector-General of Police, deployed their officials in the state, comprising Police Mobile Force, Special Protection Units, Counter Terrorism Units, Anti-Bomb Squad, the Air Wing and the K9 section, among others.
“Our proactive approach in ascertaining adequate security for the conduct of the election made it virtually infeasible for hoodlums or malefactors to transgress the law or contravene the electoral process,” he integrated.
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