Police to ‘relocate’ to Ekiti for governorship election

The Nigeria Police Force says it is deploying enough security resources to ensure that the Ekiti gubernatorial election is incident-free.

On Friday, inspector-general of police, Mohammed Abubakar directed the deputy inspector-general in charge of operations, Michael Zuokomor to “relocate to Ado-Ekiti, the headquarters of Ekiti State, so as to ensure adequate police presence and coordination of all security operations for the election in all polling units and collation centers in the state”.

Restating the IGP’s directive, police spokesman, Frank Mba, said: “The IGP, who has ordered all police officers and men assigned to election duties in Ekiti State to ensure they work in line with the police code of conduct and international best practices, called on all the members of the public particularly politicians, gubernatorial candidates and other relevant stakeholders in Ekiti State to cooperate with the police and other security agencies in the onerous but patriotic task of guaranteeing a hitch-free gubernatorial poll”.

Earlier, Mba said that the IGP had assured Nigerian citizens, especially indigenes of Ekiti State, of the readiness of the Nigeria police force and other relevant security agencies to provide effective security and to ensure a smooth and orderly conduct of the Ekiti gubernatorial election, which comes up on June 21, 2014.