IG Assures South East On 2023 Elections

Residents and people of the South East geo-political zone have been assured that the forthcoming 2023 General Election will hold in the area as scheduled.
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Usman Baba, gave the assurance in Enugu, weekend, during the opening ceremony of the One-Day “South-East 2023 Elections Security Management Workshop”.
Represented on the occasion by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Mr Isaac Akinmoyede, the IGP said the police was building a robust synergy with other sister security organisations and formations to ensure that the 2023 elections remained seamless and “very peaceful”.
According to him, “we are brainstorming together to fashion out ways to deal with existing and emerging security threats head long within the South-East.
“It is clear that with robust synergy, cooperation and joint operations this area will be the most peaceful and our people will surely come out to exercise their civic responsibility.
“We are working relentlessly on the goal of ensuring that election holds in the South-East and people’s vote are secured and it will definitely count,” the I-G assured.
Earlier, Dr Solomon Arase, a retired I-G of Police, said that the workshop was meant for all security agencies and formations in South-East to get them ready for the task of a peaceful, credible and hitch-free election in 2023.
Arase, who is a consultant in the workshop, said that the workshop would help to identify previous security gaps in election security as well as pin point task and responsibility of each security agency concerned about election.
“Security agencies have gathered here on how to study trends and patterns of crimes before and during elections and how effective to deal with it in a holistic and collaborative manner,” he added.
Speaking, the Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Abubakar Lawal, urged the people of the zone and the state not to express any fear about the 2023 general elections.
“2023 Election will hold and we are doing everything humanly possible to ensure that our people should not entertain any fear or any opinion in the contrary,” Lawal assured.
It would be recalled that the workshop was initiated and organised by the I-G to further build the capacity of security agencies and their personnel concerned with election security
In attendance at the workshop were the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Airforce, Nigerian Navy, Nigeria Police, Department of State Security and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.
Others are, the Nigeria Correctional Service, Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria Custom Service, Federal and State Fire Services as well as National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), among others.