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The Ekiti State
Police Command has mobilized 7,500 police officers that will work with
the State Security Service, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps
and other paramilitary organisations during the elections in the state
today.

The spokesperson of
the police in the state, Jimoh Mohammed, who made the disclosure in a
telephone interview, said the officers have started displaying a ‘show
of Force’ to alert the populace that they are ground.

Mr Jimoh said the
officers will provide adequate security for election officials and the
electorate to facilitate the success of the polls.

He also said no
police orderly would be allowed to escort their principals to the
polling units during today’s elections in consonance with the
guidelines for the conduct of the elections

Also, the Resident
Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Halilu Hussaini Pai yesterday
disclosed that all materials for the conduct of today’s National and
State Assembly elections have been distributed to the Electoral
Officers in the sixteen Council Areas of the State.

Mr. Pai in a chat
with journalists in Ado Ekiti, said the electorate would witness prompt
take off of the accreditation exercise and voting in all the 177 wards
and 2, 195 units across the State.

He promised that
the Commission will conduct free, fair and credible elections, advising
members of political parties to be law abiding and orderly during the
polls.

Mr. Pai called on
all the security agencies in the state to fully enforce the restriction
of human and vehicular movement tomorrow.

The governor of the
State, Kayode Fayemi, has threatened to deal with anyone who foments
trouble during the conduct of the National and State Assembly elections
in the state.

The governor, who
made the statement while distributing 100 motorcycles to some
commercial motorcyclists at the Government House yesterday, urged the
electorate to troop out en masse and cast their votes for the best
candidates.

Mr Fayemi assured
that all measures had been put in place to ensure the security of lives
and property during and after the elections.

He urged the people
to remain committed to the ongoing electoral process and eschew any act
that could disrupt the peace of the state.

Meanwhile, a
detachment of soldiers that were drafted into the state has taken
strategic positions in all the sixteen local government areas of the
state.