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Osun Bye-Election: Group Wants Osinbajo To Provide Adequate Security

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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo

A civil group, the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has called on the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to provide adequate security before, during and after the forthcoming Osun West Senatorial District bye-election slated to hold on Saturday 8th of July, 2017.

The group which allayed the fears of the electorates in the senatorial district asked them to come out enmass and vote for the candidate of their choice also advised them to defend their votes.

In a statement issued and signed by the group’s Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman on Thursday, it alleged that some desperate politicians in the state had stock piled arms and ammunitions with their political thugs to disrupt the peaceful conduct of the bye-election in the various units where they perceived electoral defeat.

Sulaiman urged the acting President as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to deploy men of Nigeria Army and the anti-riot policemen to monitor the bye-election across the polling units of  the affected ten local government areas of the state.

The group listed the security threat areas as Iwo, Ikire, Apomu, Orile-Owu and its environ alleging that political thugs have been arranged by the power that be in the state to unleash terror on suspected voters who do not believe in their political ideology.

Sulaiman charged security agents to be alive to their duty before, during and after the bye-election in the state.

He also urged both the Adhoc and permanent Staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deployed for the conduct of the election to ensure that they conducted themselves during the poll in a transparent and professional manner in order to have generally acceptable bye-election in the state, noting that the election would be one of the liberation elections to be held in the State ahead of 2018 governorship election.

Packaged by Bunmi Oladejo

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