Saturday Polls: AIG Oyebade Holds Strategic Meeting …Warns Troublemakers

Segun Atanda/

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone XI comprising Osun, Oyo and Ondo states, AIG Leye Oyebade mni, has assured members of the public of adequate security before, during and after the rescheduled general elections.

According to a statement issued by the Zone XI spokesman, SP Adekunle Ajisebutu, the police boss gave this assurance today at a strategic meeting held with the three commissioners of police in the zone ahead of the forthcoming presidential and National Assembly elections.

While directing the CPs to ensure robust security in their respective state commands, the AIG assures of adequate protection for INEC officials, electoral materials, local and foreign observers/monitors and the electorate whom he enjoined should go out and exercise their franchise without fear of intimidation or molestation.

Promising that the police would be professional in their conduct, AIG Oyebade warned that decisive actions would be taken against anyone who might want to cause violence and truncate the electoral process.