The Bauchi State Police Command has warned members of subversive social media influencers against igniting post-election violence in the state.
A statement by the Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Mohammad Wakil, said these potentially subversive elements are using social media platforms to project their candidates as likely winners of the contest and advance their dubious allegations that supporters of a particular political party were disenfranchised through intimidation and the failure of INEC to commence the polling exercise as scheduled.
According to him, “This negative scenario is undoubtedly a recipe for post-election violence capable of destabilizing the state and the country at large.”
He warned that any individual or group, who will be sponsored, or acted on his own with the view to deliberately flare up a flame of disorder or disrupt the peaceful electoral process in the state, will not be spared facing the full wrath of the law.
“Furthermore, the command is ever-ready to employ all efforts and available assets to reinforce the already-deployed assets in a bit to suppress any attempt by miscreants to infringe on the right of citizens and to undermine democracy in the state, SP Wakil said.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Aminu Alhassan, warned parents, guardians, and leaders wielding various degrees of influence to prevail on their wards and protégés against being used as cannon fodder in disrupting the relative peace enjoyed in the state and at the same time be guided against unnecessary heating up of the polity with inciting utterances and provocative gestures.
