FG warns trouble makers ahead of gov poll

The National Security Adviser (NSA) Babagana Monguno has warned those planning to foment trouble in the Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections.

He spoke at a meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security at the Commission’s headquarters on Tuesday.

Monguno said, “Anybody who is itching to undermine this process should please think again because it is not in the person’s interest and not in the interest of the country. We will continue to work round the clock and all the crisis centres will be open.”

Although he noted that Saturday’s elections would come with its dynamics, the security agents had been placed on red alert to deal with any  breach.

He said, “Of course, the elections we are going into on Saturday are going to be more complicated. We are going to have 1,021 constituencies, meaning that we are going to have more people voting, more collation centres and obviously, the dynamics will be much more different from the elections we just concluded.”

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Mahmood Yakubu also at the forum asked parties and political stakeholders to warn their supporters against any act of violence.