The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu, has deployed five Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs) and three Assistant Inspectors of Police (AIGs) to further strengthen security during the supplementary elections on Saturday.
Others deployed are 15 additional Commissioners of Police (CPs) to provide supervision, direction and support to the existing security already in place in states where the elections would hold.
A statement by the force spokesman, ACP Frank Mba, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja.
The DIGs are Usman Tilli Abubakar, Adamawa, Yakubu Jubrin, Benue, Taiwo Lakanu, Plateau, Anthony Ogbizi, Kano and Godwin Nwobodo, Bauchi.
The spokesman said that out of the 15 CPs, three each were deployed to Benue and Sokoto, two each to Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano and Plateau States while Imo got one.
Mba said that the IGP also directed the Zonal AIGs and their respective CPs in states where elections would take place to ensure adequate security.
Mba said the police boss charged them to remain patriotic, steadfast, professional, neutral and civil, but firm, in their conducts and actions during the elections.
He warned politicians not to undermine the electoral process by engaging in ballot box snatching, vote trading and violence of all kinds.
Adamu also enjoined the public to cooperate with security operatives for successful conduct of the elections.
Meanwhile, the Police Command in Kano State has restricted movement of motor vehicles, tricycles and all other means of transportation across the 44 local government areas of the state.
According to the police, the measure is to ensure free and fair gubernatorial supplementary election scheduled for March 23 in the state.
This was contained in statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, in Kano on Thursday.
Haruna said that no vehicle, motorcycle or tricycle would be allowed to move between 06:00hrs and 18:00hrs during the election period.
He advised all eligible voters to trek to their respective polling units in order to exercise their civic responsibility.
