• Warns in opposition to vote-buying, counting manipulation• Avoid voting locations, IG tells Amotekun, others, cautions in opposition to violenceThe Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) has raised the alarm that the propaganda suggesting a walkover in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the incumbent governor, Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, on the coming governorship election, was a deliberated technique to rig the ballot.
The get together, due to this fact, referred to as on the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) to make sure that the election is free, truthful and credible, simply because it insisted that each one anti-graft commissions within the nation ought to be on floor to cease vote-buying or inducement of the voters through the election.
Nationwide Publicity Secretary of PDP, Debo Ologunagba, informed The Guardian that there was no disaster on the nationwide degree of the get together that’s able to undermining the possibilities of its candidate, Agboola Ajayi, from profitable the ballot.
He mentioned the propaganda was a method being deployed by ruling get together to discourage the teeming supporters of the PDP from popping out to vote and in addition a technique intentionally adopted to rig the election. Ologunagba additionally appealed to the media to not set a nasty agenda by linking the nationwide problems with PDP with the Ondo election.
Nonetheless, a chieftain of the Ondo APC, Bola Ilori, mentioned that Aiyedatiwa can be closing his marketing campaign on a really excessive hope of retaining energy on Saturday, simply as he added that the financial hardship, which PDP is latching on to win, just isn’t going to work out in Ondo State.
MEANWHILE, the Inspector-Basic of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has mentioned that solely the federal safety companies and different members of the inter-agency consultative committee on election safety can be allowed to take part within the election.
He, nevertheless, urged the Western Nigeria Safety Community, codenamed Amotekun Corps, Vigilante Corps and others, to keep away from the voting locations. A press release, yesterday, by the Drive Spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, acknowledged that the IG had ordered the deployment of officers from numerous specialised models, together with the Particular Intervention Squad, Police Cell Drive, Counter-Terrorism Unit, Particular Safety Unit, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit, and Okay-9 Unit, amongst others.
Adejobi, who added that aerial patrols can be carried out with police helicopters, whereas gunboats would patrol the state’s waterways and riverine areas to make sure safety throughout all terrains, mentioned the IG vowed to take care of political thugs or people planning to disrupt the elections.
