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EKITI GOV POLL: Police, others to deploy 20,000 personnel
Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bello Ahmed, on Friday revealed that police and other security operatives will deploy over 20,000 personnel for the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State.
According to him, while police would deploy 16,000 of its personnel, other security agencies would make up the remaining number.
Ahmed stated this when he spoke to newsmen in Abuja at the end of the 2nd regular quarterly consultative meeting with security agencies under the auspices of the Inter- Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security.
He assured that to ensure a hitch free election that the likely flash points in the state had been identified and robust security measures put in place.
The Ekiti State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Abdulganiu Raji, who also spoke to newsmen on the July 14 election, said that INEC was not under any form of threat ahead of the election.
He debunked the insinuations in some quarters suggesting that the election is going to be rigged.
Raji argued that given the kind of structure that INEC has put in place, that the issue of rigging does not arise.
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“I don’ t know what you want to rig again with the kind of structure we have put in place in INEC. That is what we have been explaining to the people of Ekiti State,” he said.
Meanwhile, Ripples Nigeria gathered from a monitored report that the electoral body is going to spend about N600 million on the Ekiti State governorship election.
INEC National Commissioner in charge of the Ekiti election, Prince Solomon Soyebi, who gave the hint, explained that over 11, 000 officials would take part in the election.
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