IG Mohammed Abubakar
In a statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officers, CSP Frank Mba and made available to newsmen yesterday, increased police presence in all adjoining states to Ekiti State (Kwara, Kogi, Ondo and Osun) has also been ordered, and security aides attached to political chieftains have been barred from accompanying their principals during the period of the election.
The statement also says the IGP has directed an Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Bala Nasarawa and five commissioners of police to Ekiti State, to ensure the enforcement of electoral rules, while the restriction on movement was informed by the need to forestall plans by criminal elements to undermine the electoral process as gathered through intelligence reports.
Meanwhile, the Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has denied a claim by the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, that he had taken ballot materials to Akure ahead of the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State.
Obanikoro, who described the allegation as reckless, said he did not owe the APC any explanation to move around in the country.
Also, the U.S Mission to Nigeria has sent 30 accredited election observers to monitor the Ekiti governorship election this Saturday.
The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, who made this known in a video message, said a well-conducted election free of violence would demonstrate the credibility of the electoral system in the run-up to the general elections in February 2015.
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