Agency Report
By Sani Idris
The Special Adviser Media an publicity to Kaduna State Speaker Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Yusuf Zailani, Ibrahim Dahiru Danfulani has called on the founder of Liberty Radio and Television Ahmed Ramalan Tijjanni to withdraw his allegation against of trouble between his principal and the Kaduna Government House.
Alhaji Tijjani on his verified Facebook page wrote."fireworks in the government house, hate speech , reckless speech exchange between the king of hate and Hon. Speaker Zailani.
The media aide to the Speaker said such post on social platform by a respected elder and Chieftain in the state is least expected, stressing that relationship between executive and legislative arm of government is very cordial.
' I urge him to withdraw the statement as a respected person whom we also respect because the working relationship between the State government and legislative arm is good.
"Our focus now is to have a successful and peaceful election and beside, we don’t know anybody with the name king of hate in the government house.
" We therefore urge him to delete the post with immediate effect to avoid misleading the public with false information.
" As a respeceted person. He should not be seen spreading such news but instead committed to peace in Kaduna State.
" Should he fail to do the needful by pulling down the post, we may be left with no option but to seek further explanation from him through legal means, we hope we won't get there," he said.
EFCC steps up action against vote buying, deploys teams on Saturday
The various EFCC teams led by senior officers began arriving at their assigned locations earlier on Friday.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed its personnel across the states where Governorship and State Assembly elections will take place on Saturday.
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The EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.
He said the move was to ensure that the elections were devoid of financial malpractice, especially inducement of voters.
According to him, the teams led by senior officers began arriving at their assigned locations earlier on Friday.
He said a number of them, on arrival, held consultation with the other security agencies involved in election security and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Uwajaren said that the team for Ebonyi State arrived Abakaliki and met with the Commissioner of Police at the State Headquarters, to register their presence.
He said they, thereafter, proceeded to the State INEC Headquarters for a brief meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC).
”Officers of Kaduna Zonal Command led by ACEII Mustapha Abubakar who are on election monitoring mission to Niger State also met the Commissioner of Police, J.A Ogundele, to register their presence in the state.
”They also visited the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Niger State, Ahmed Yusha’u Garki.
”Officers of the Abuja Zonal Command on election monitoring duty in Nasarawa State, led by ACE II Adeniyi Adebayo, also registered their presence at the Nigeria Police Command Lafia,” he said.
According to him, they also had a brief meeting with the Commissioner of Police.
The spokesman said that the brief of the teams was to deter vote trading and other financial malpractice that could compromise the integrity of the elections.
He said that the Executive Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, had, in a message to the teams before the Presidential and National Assembly elections, charged them to exhibit a high sense of integrity and professionalism in carrying out their duties.
“You are out on a national assignment and I expect you to conduct yourselves responsibly in line with our core values of professionalism, integrity and courage.
”You have a responsibility to ensure that this election is devoid of financial malpractices, especially inducement of voters.
”The attention of the world is focused on Nigeria and we must do what is necessary to ensure that we have credible, free and fair elections,“ he quoted Bawa as saying.
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