PRESS BRIEFING: PARADE OF ERRING POLICE OFFICERS

POLICE OFFICERS

BY
DCP DON AWUNAH,fsi,
FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
AT FORCE HEADUQARTERS ABUJA

6TH JANUARY, 2017

v Aftermath of Rivers State 10th December, 2016
Parliamentary Re-run Election

Gentlemen of the press, you are welcome to today’s press briefing at Force headquarters, Louis Edet House, Abuja. Let me also use the opportunity to wish us all a happy new year.
Democratic Policing is one of the core values of the current Police management under the leadership of IGP Ibrahim K. Idris, NPM, mni. The IGP as an ardent apostle of the rule of law and adherent of international best practices of Policing has since assumption of office articulated a master plan to guarantee a reformed electoral process across the country. This is a novel security template devoid of violence, electoral malpractices and attendant destruction of lives and property which have been a recurring decimal in previous elections in the country.

#EkitiDecides: PDP should devote the energy they use to steal elections to the Nation – Tinubu

With today’s election, Ekiti State has become the epicenter of Nigerian electoral politics. Here, the major political fault lines converge into a great foreshadowing. 

Fateful questions not only about Ekiti but about the course of our nation and its uncertain democracy will be asked and may be answered this day. If this is how history will have it, so be it. Elections in Nigeria have rarely been a transparent exercise.

The ruling party has mostly dug into its bag of electoral tricks to cast about a vast assortment of malpractice over almost every important contest.

As the ruling PDP senses its popularity flag and apprehends the existence of an opposition party that it cannot dominate, PDP anxiety has become acute. Rigging is no longer a tool it uses in election.

Rigging has become an article of faith for them. With the advent of the APC, the PDP finally faces a challenger strong enough to remove its chokehold on the nation’s future.

Ekiti Poll: WHO IS DECEIVING WHO?

The same old story that characterized our elections in Nigeria is far from been nip in the bud. INEC plans to conduct a caricature of election in Ekiti state come this weekend, the signs of failure and rigging are already emerging and are obvious.

The refusal of Amaechi and Kwankwaso to pay a solidarity visit to Ekiti ahead of the election in defence of their party is really a case study.

It did happen in Anambra and it is about to happen in Ekiti again.