The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has allayed fears that the May 29 presidential inauguration may be disrupted.
The IG, who addressed newsmen in Abuja on Monday also assured that the inauguration date remained sacrosanct.
He however warned political parties trying to cause trouble ahead of the ceremony to desist from doing so.
He said: “Following the successful conclusion of the 2023 General elections, it has been observed that some major political actors that the outcome did not favour, have been issuing public threats that are directed at instigating actions to frustrate the Presidential inauguration ceremony on 29th May, 2023.
“The Nigeria Police and the national intelligence community have been closely monitoring the activities of these political elites as well as other elements who have formed themselves into unpatriotic brands whose only fantasy, in recent times, is to subvert our national security interests.
“In so doing, they seem to be bent on deploying extra-judicial and undemocratic means to truncate our democratic heritage in the advancement of their narrow personal political considerations”.
Baba also noted that the police force would explore every possible means to alongside other security outfits to defend democracy
According to him, the beauty of democracy lies not just in the freedom of the citizens to freely exercise their franchise within the electoral cycle:
He added that aggrieved political actors have the right to submit grievances on the electoral outcome to the judicial process for consideration.
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