2023 General Elections: IGP assures of police readiness to provide full security coverage
Ahead of the 2023 general elections commencing next weekend, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba Alkali, assured of police security coverage before, during and after the elections.
This is even as the IGP has directed the convergence of all heads of operations in state and zonal commands at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, for a one-day training seminar on practical approaches to curbing electoral violence within the election process.
Force PRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the seminar to be declared open by the IGP himself, will have in attendance deputy commissioners of police in charge of operations at all zonal and state commands of the Nigeria Police Force, participants from the operations department of the military and other security agencies involved in election security management, members of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), the media, Youth representatives and the diplomatic community, with the theme “The Role of the Nigeria Police Force in Curbing Election Violence in Nigeria as it Affects the Upcoming 2023 General Elections”.
Professor Sunday Ochoche, of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) will serve as a keynote speaker alongside AIG Wilson Inalegwu (retd) and CP Lawrence Alobi (retd.) at the seminar.
The Force PRO also noted that the IGP has assured that the Nigeria Police Force will collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure preparedness to deliver on its mandate of providing full security coverage before, during, and after the 2023 general elections.
