Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has barred security aides from accompanying VIPs and political appointees during the September nineteen governorship election in Edo.
Force Public Relations Officer, a Deputy Police Commissioner, Frank Mba, announced this in a statement in Abuja.
He said the Inspector General of Police had warned that anyone who flouted the order would be severely reprimanded.
The directive means that Governor Godwin Obaseki, former APC chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, APC candidate Osagie Ize-Iyamu and other political actors, are expected to walk to their polling stations alone.
Mba said the Inspector General of Police had also deployed the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Research and Planning, Adeleye Oyebade to supervise the general security arrangement for the election.
