10,000 NSCDC Personnel For Bayelsa Poll

About 10,000 operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have been posted to Bayelsa State for the governorship election holding on Saturday, December 5, 2015.

Also, the Commandant General of the corps, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, has assured voters and residents of the state of adequate security during the exercise on Saturday.

Gana made this assertion at the Corps National Headquarters, Abuja, disclosing that 10,000 personnel have been deployed to provide security before, during and after election.

According to the NSCDC helmsman ”three Deputy Commandant Generals, four Assistant Commandant Generals, a host of Commandants, officers, men and sniffer dogs will be on hand to ensure a hitch-free poll on Saturday. Also, armed personnel have been strategically positioned to protect the nation’s national assets to dissuade hoodlums from having a field day.”

He expressed optimism on the Bayelsa poll, while calling on INEC to be the unbiased umpire they have been known for, noting that their right conduction of the election will determine the outcome of the poll which he said, he is very sure will be very free and fair.

Gana also implored the politicians who will be contesting in the poll not to make it a do or die affair as a winner and a loser must emerge after the election, admonishing them further to be open minded to accept defeat and victory with humility and that they should work together for the overall good of the people of Bayelsa State, who first came out of their goodwill to vote for them not withstanding who emerges as the loser or victor.

He charged parents and guardians not to allow their wards to be used as thugs to accomplish any form of catastrophe. He reminded them that their abilities to enthrone a good government in Bayelsa State through the peaceful conducts by them and their wards who are of age to exercise their lawful franchise during the election, will usher in afterward a very prosperous Bayelsa State of their dream turned reality.