Police warn candidates, supporters against inciting comments

The Nigeria Police Force has asked candidates from the All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, and New Nigerian Peoples Party among others to restrain their supporters from making inciting remarks “capable of unnecessarily heating up the polity and creating undue excitement among the electorates.”

The police also warned all party leaders not to put excessive pressure on the electoral umpire to withhold the results in a statement released on Monday and signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi.

The statement partly read, “The NPF, having assessed the trend of scaled-up expectations and psychological projections on the ongoing electoral process viz-a-viz collation of results, charges all presidential candidates, as leading and respected figures in their respective political parties, to seize the opportunity of this waiting period to emphasise the rule of law, respect for the Constitution, and constituted authority among their supporters, as we all owe a duty to ensure that the nation does not fall into anarchy on the basis of interests and sentiments.”

Meanwhile, the Force commended voters for their patience and lawful conduct while also charging presidential candidates to caution their supporters in respect of the recently signed peace accord.