According to a statement by the Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani the Commission’s team visited 12 local government areas in the three Senatorial districts of the state, covering seventy seven polling units.
Ani said the team received a total of 51 telephone calls from its advertised dedicated lines with complaints basically on attempts to induce voters.
The statement said there was reasonable distribution of Police men at the various polling units ranging from three to about 12 depending on the size of the Unit.
It said the Police men were complemented in virtually all the polling units by men of the Department of State Security Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Road Safety Commission and the joint task force of Mobile Police men and the Military that manned major highways and junctions in the state.
Ani said the Commission’s team noticed a high population of Police Officers of Inspector rank in most of the Polling units but could not immediately ascertain the reason for using such high Calibre of officers to man the polling units.
He said the Commission will investigate further this commendable conduct of the officer and if confirmed to be true, will consider rewarding him as it will equally visit disciplinary measure on those found wanting.
