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| Abdulsalami Abubakar |
The police have beefed up security in Sokoto, Kano, Benue and Plateau states ahead of the supplementary polls scheduled for Saturday.
Also, the National Peace Committee led by a former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, met with party leaders in Benue and Bauchi states on Wednesday with an appeal to them to give peace a chance and accept the outcome of the run-offs.
Supplementary elections had been fixed for March 23 in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto states where the Independent National Electoral Commission had declared the governorship elections held on February 9 inconclusive.
However, tension has been mounting in the affected states with the two leading parties, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, heating up the polity with accusations and counter-accusations of plot to rig the run-offs.
But the security agents in order to ensure a peaceful conduct of the supplementary election have beefed up security in the states where the rerun will take place.
In Kano State, for instance, the police have tightened security in major parts of the state in preparation for the supplementary election that would hold in 29 out of 40 Local Government Areas of the state.
This was sequel to a “strategic meeting” in Kano attended by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Wakili, and heads of other security agencies as well as the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Riskuwa Arabu-Shehu.
