By Linus Aleke
The Police Service Commission (PSC), has scored the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), the Armed Force of Nigeria (AFN), and other security agencies very high in their professional and ethical conduct during the Ekiti Guber election held on 18th of June 2023.
Head, Press and Public Relations, Mr. Ikechukwu Ani made this commendation in a statement in Abuja.
“The Ekiti State Governorship Election held on June 18th 2022 was largely peaceful and orderly. The Nigeria Police Force, the lead agency, in collaboration with sister agencies, such as the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, DSS, Federal Road Safety Commission, etc, were professional and their conduct satisfactory.
“The Commission monitored the conduct of the Police in the 16 Local Government Areas of the State where the Commission’s Monitored confirmed that the Police teams arrived the Polling Units on time and were civil and courteous in their conduct,” the statement said.
Mr. Ani disclosed that the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Johnson Kokumo led the Security team for the election and ensured that deployments were timely and well organized.
According to him, “The Police also promptly intervened in some reported cases of vote buying and crowd misbehaviour and showed adequate presence in most of the polling Units. There was an average of two to five Police Officers in most of the polling Units visited by the Commission’s Monitors”.
The Commission he said sees the conduct of the Police in the Ekiti Governorship election as a huge improvement and a good test-run for the 2023 General elections.
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Mr. Ani concluded that there was massive deployment of Police Officers from different Commands and formations of the Force and this gave the voters a sense of security.
