Why we sent troopers to Osun – Obanikoro 





OSOGBO—MINISTER  of State for Defense, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, yesterday said the arrangement of outfitted security agents, including officers to Osun State for Saturday's governorship race was to avert breakdown of lawfulness in the recent past, amid and after the governorship decision.

This came as the Acting Inspector General of Police, IGP, Suleiman Abba, cautioned legislators without authentic business in the decision to stay away from the state amid the decisions.


Obanikoro

Obanikoro, at instructions in Osogbo, said the troopers conveyed to the state were not to threaten individuals, however to guarantee peace in all parts of the state, noting that the principle justification behind the sending of the security executors was for support of peace and efficiency.

He talked against the background of charged exploitation of occupants of the state by the equipped security agents, saying "those you are seeing are prepared security work force who are after peace in the nation."

Guide clear, IGP cautions nosy government officials

Thus, Acting IGP, Mr. Abba, has cautioned government officials who have no business in the  decision to guide clear amid the decisions.

Talking with State House journalists after a gathering with Vice President Namadi Sambo at the presidential estate, Abuja, the Acting IGP said he was at that point activating satisfactory security to guarantee the race was led under a favorable environment.

As per him, "when I assumed control on Friday, I met an operational request set up, I experienced it rapidly and made various modification, which incorporate the way that we have to be there right on time enough, so I balanced the time that officers were coordinated to report.

"I verified that by Saturday, they were there. The point is that if anybody is preparing anyone to cause brutality, we are letting him know that we would verify the law follows through to its logical end.

"Indeed, my recommendation is this, on the off chance that you don't have any business to do with Osun race, simply don't go there in light of the fact that the law will get up to speed with you. This is my recommendation."

PDP will win all South West States —Presidency

In the mean time, the Presidency said yesterday with the confirmation of the hopeful of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore, winning the decision, the whole south-west states would come back to PDP in 2015.

The Presidency additionally clarified that it got to be basic for President Goodluck Jonathan to report in Osogbo that Police would guarantee security before and amid the race and guarantee substantial security vicinity after reports of arranged commotion amid the decision.

Talking with writers in Abuja, Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Political Matters, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali, said it was important for the South West Zone to come back to the PDP by 2015 to shake off what he portrayed as the robe of resistance which it had long been related to.

Salt, who noted that Nigeria ought to be thankful for to President Jonathan for making the last governorship decision in Ekiti serene, however communicated certainty that Osun race would additionally be quiet, noting it was glaring that the PDP was the most grounded in the zone given the way the electorate in the south west had been establishing for the decision party recently.