The Deputy Inspector of General of Police (DIG), Johnson Babatunde Kokumo has called for collective effort in a bid to have a free, fair and credible poll in the Osun State gubernatorial election slated for Saturday.
Kokumo made this call in Osogbo on Thursday at the interactive session with accredited observer groups.
He also charged the members of the public to alert the security operatives whenever they notice electoral anomalies such as vote-buying.
In his words, “you also talked about vote-buying, to you you feel when you see something or say something that is not applicable to applicable to circumstance, I want to appeal to you: whatever you see that is contrary to the Electoral Act 2022, let us know. Let us see if, call our attention to it. It is not out of place.
“You know our zeal. You know the security personnel are in the picture of vote buying, they may not. You have a civic responsibility to discharge and what is that? Join hands with us in curbing crimes and criminality. And, of course, this includes electoral offenses. We cannot do it alone. If you join hands with us to do it, you will be equally succeeded in doing your bit.
“And the little things we were able to do collectively and equally are responsible for success we see in those elections we have had in Nigeria,” he said.
The police afterward announced restriction of movements from the 00 Hours of Saturday to 18:00 of Saturday.
“People who are saddled with responsibility with special duties such as INEC accredited press men and women and election observers are free to move as far as they have their tags.”
