Osun West Bye-Election: Provide adequate security,CSCEOS tells F.G, SECURITY AGENCIES
A civil group, the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of
Osun State (CSCEOS) has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari
through the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and the
leadership of the Security operatives in the country to provide
adequate security before, during and after the forthcoming
bye-election slated to hold on Saturday 8th of July, 2017 by the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the State.
The group also allays the fears of the electorates in the Osun West
Senatorial district of the State to come out enmass and vote for the
candidate of their choice in the senatorial election, advising the
electorates in the Saturday bye-election to also defend their votes.
It urged the Adhoc and permanent Staff of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) deployed for the conduct of the election
to ensure that they conducted themselves during the poll in a
transparent and professional manner in order to have generally
acceptable bye-election in the State, noting that the forthcoming
bye-election was the one of the liberation elections to be held in the
State ahead of 2018 guber election.
In a statement issued by the CSCEOS’ Directorate of Media and Strategy
and signed by its Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman, which the
copies were made available to newsmen on Thursday, alleged that some
gullible politicians in the State had stock piled arms and ammunitions
with their political thugs to disrupt the peaceful conduct of the
bye-election in the various units where they perceived electoral
defeat.
The statement urged Mr. President as Commander-in-Chief of Armed
Forces to deploy men of Nigeria Army and the anti-riot policemen to
monitor the bye-election across the polling units of the affected ten
(10) local government areas of the State, advising that the four
military men, two anti-riot policemen, two general policemen, two men
of Civil Defence, two men of Directorate of State Service (DSS) and
one other paramilitary officers were to be deployed to monitor the
conduct of the election in those areas.
It listed the security threat areas as Iwo, Ikire, Apomu, Orile-Owu
and its environ where the political thugs have been arranged by the
power that be in the State to unleash terror on the suspected voters
who did not believe in their political ideology, urging the security
agents to be alive to their duty before, during and after the
bye-election in the State.
It therefore advised the authority of Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to
send the men of Mopol 25 to 35 of the Mobile Force and anti-terrorist
Mopols from Oduduwa crescent,G.R.A.,Lagos to be among those to be sent
to the State for policing the poling units during the forthcoming
bye-election.
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