PDP raises alarm over heavy security presence in Kwara

THE People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over heavy deployment of top security chiefs in Kwara State, ahead of Saturday’s presidential election.

Kwara is the home state of the Senate President and PDP Presidential Campaign Council Director-General Dr. Bukola Saraki.

A statement yesterday by the PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the deployment was part of a plot by the Federal Government to intimidate, harass and create fear in the minds of voters and rig elections in the state.

“As part of the plot, the Directorate of State Services (DSS) has deployed its Director of Operations, Etteng Bassey, as well as the State Directors in charge of Ogun and Anambra states to Kwara State ahead of Saturday’s elections while the Director in charge of Kwara State has been moved to Benue. This is in addition to the deployment of hundreds of other DSS operatives from Abuja to Kwara State.

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“We also have it on good authority that soldiers will from tomorrow cordon off all entry points to the personal house of the Senate President in Ilorin as well as his late father’s compound in Ilofa Road, old GRA, Ilorin.

“Similarly, the police have made heavy deploys capital, where they have been instructed to arrest key political players loyal to Senator Saraki.”