Osun 2026: Yiaga Africa decries pre-election violence, seeks robust security

A non-governmental organization, Yiaga Africa has lamented the spate of pre-election unit ahead of August 15 governorship predetermination successful Osun State.

Speaking during an interrogation connected Arise Television on Friday, the Executive Director of the group, Samson Itodo, described it arsenic a superior origin for concern.

Itodo said civilian nine organisations progressive successful elections paid a sojourn to the Inspector-General of Police, noting that the Osun predetermination was not conscionable tense, but highly competitive.

“The level of pre-election unit starring up to the predetermination is simply a immense origin for concern, peculiarly the reports of governmental abductions and nonaccomplishment of lives.

“We wanted to gully the IGP’s attraction to the authorities of information and the request to guarantee a harmless and credible election.

“There are individuals who deliberation that they person entree to national mightiness and privation to instrumentalize information agencies to undermine the elections.

“We telephone connected President Bola Tinubu to contented a beardown and highly worded connection to the information agencies to let the process spell connected usually and not to interfere with the election.

“The president besides needs to telephone radical astir him and pass that anyone who thinks due to the fact that of entree to national mightiness wants to maltreatment such, volition look the afloat wrath of the law.

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