President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday held a closed-door meeting with the nation’s security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The session started at about 11:00 a.m. Its agenda was not made public.
The Guardian however learnt that the security situation in the country was the issue on the table, especially ahead of the governorship and houses of assembly elections across the country.
Present at the meeting were the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonishakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ejwe Ibas; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar; Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and others.
Adamu, who spoke after the meeting, warned that the security services would not allow a repeat of the disruptions, which dogged the February 23 elections in parts of the country.
Addressing State House correspondents after the meeting, Adamu warned that the security agencies would deal ruthlessly with anyone who constitutes a hindrance to the smooth conduct of the coming Saturday’s elections.
The IGP, who acknowledged incidents of thuggery, ballot snatching, and others as characterising the presidential elections, said the police had come up with an enhanced security measure to provide an enabling environment for all to come out and cast their votes for their preferred candidates.
“We will again advise those that will want to disrupt the process to rethink because during the presidential election, we had some few challenges here and there. We’ll not allow those challenges to repeat themselves. We are taking more security measures to address those pockets of challenges we noticed.
Source: Guardian Newspaper
