A former spokesman for the Defence Headquarters, Maj-Gen John Enenche (rtd) has stressed that security must be strengthened at collation centres nationwide to forestall more cases of snatching of ballot boxes and the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).
Citing cases of political thuggery and disruption of polls recorded during the presidential and National Assembly polls on Saturday in Lagos, Rivers, and other places, the retired major general said security should be strengthened at the collation centres.
“It is not good to take chances,” he said on The 2023 Verdict, Channels Television’s special election programme on Sunday. “It is good to strengthen the state of readiness, the state of alert. If the military was on blue, changed them to yellow or red, the same thing with the police.”
Enenche, who is a staunch supporter of Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, said it is important for security to be strengthened at collation centres so that “the results that will be announced, to a large extent, will be believed by Nigerians”.
He noted that the election has not been militarised as claimed by senior lawyers like Femi Falana (SAN), adding that Nigeria has not gotten to the stage where only the police will be involved in ensuring the sanity and safety of the voting process
