The Nigeria Police has made its stance clear on the problem of early campaigns by political events and their candidates forward of the 2027 common elections.
Inspector Normal of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, spoke on the INEC roundtable on the Challenges of Untimely Campaigns, on the Electoral Institute, Abuja, on Wednesday.
The police puzzled if there was even the necessity to regulate campaigns in a time when social media is the order of the day.
The IGP, nonetheless, mentioned that the police, as a regulation enforcement entity, was all the time accessible to implement legal guidelines duly handed by the legisture.
“I feel there’s one essential query that we have to ask, do we actually have to proceed to control campaigns in 2025?, he requested.
“Primarily based on the actual fact that there’s a have to bridge the gaps between our leaders and the communities and the residents, that’s one, then two, each regulation that’s made, we on the regulation enforcement, we have now an obligation to implement these legal guidelines.
“After which we have to ask ourselves once more, what are the relevance of those legal guidelines to problems with safety and the and growth?
“That’s the query I need to throw to audio system and contributors for us to noticeably look deep into.
“Having mentioned that, the Nigeria Police Drive will proceed to implement each regulation that has been duly handed by the Senate, Home of Meeting, Home of Representatives as nicely.
“And we are going to proceed to do every little thing wanted to be executed to make sure that campaigns go on peacefully at any time, at anyplace it’s going down, and we additionally guarantee to offer enough safety for each election at any location and regardless of the time.”