Politics

Oyo LG Polls: Police Assures Stakeholders Of Adequate Security

By Web News 734

Oyo State Police Command has promised to deploy nine thousand men to maintain peace and order in over four thousand polling units across the state during the coming local government elections.

The Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mrs Ngozi Onadeko made this known while appealing to participating candidates and political parties at a meeting of security agencies with political parties at Police Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan.

Mrs Onadeko, who reiterated the police commitment to zero tolerance for thuggery during the polls, stressed that perpetrators would be prosecuted.

In a remark, the chairman Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC, Chief Isiaka Olagunju, disclosed that the creation of a Situation Room for monitoring election process in line with his vision to conduct election that would be acceptable to all stakeholders.

The chairman, Inter-party Advisory Committee, IPAC, Mr. Adegbenro Fagbemi represented by the state secretary, Mr. Kabir Akinade urged OYSIEC and security agencies to protect the promised integrity of the process.

Highlights of the meeting was the signing of peace accord by representatives of political parties, with a pledge to ensure free and fair election.

Sheriffdeen Nasirudeen

Politics

LG Election: 80% Of Applicants For Ad-hoc Staff Are Teachers – OYSIEC

By Web News 875

Eighty percent of applicants for ad-hoc staff in the forthcoming local government election in Oyo state are teachers.

Chairman, Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC, Chief Isiaka Olagunju, who stated this while on courtesy visit to the Nigeria Union of Teachers’, NUT, Teacher House, Ring Road, Ibadan, also confirmed that majority of OYSIEC commissioners are teachers, thus the success of the coming election depends much on them.

Chief Olagunju appealed to teachers not to betray trust and confidence reposed in them, while urging the union to collaborate with the commission on information dissemination to ensure that people participate to elect candidates of their choice as representatives at the local government level.

In a remark, the State Chairman, NUT, Mr. Samson Adedoyin urged OYSIEC to provide level playing field for all contestants in the poll to entrench democracy at the grassroots governance.

Mr. Adedoyin promised to assist OYSIEC towards conducting free and fair election.

The Oyo State NUT finance officer, Mr. Dele Afolabi advised OYSIEC to make courage and character his watchwords and to put in place adequate security arrangements for the safety of personnel and electoral materials.   

Sherifdeen Nasrudeen