In less than 24 hours to the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential primaries, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Commissioner Babaji Sunday has approved massive deployment of officers in and around the city to ensure a hitch-free exercise.
The Eagle Square, the location of the APC presidential primaries, according to the police, will also witness tight security.
The police will effect traffic diversions during the primaries around “The GoodLuck Ebele Jonathan Way, by Court of Appeal, Behind Court of Appeal; ECOWAS, by Women Affairs, Finance, Behind Foreign Affairs; Kur Mohammed, by National Mosque, Benue Plaza, NITEL Junction, Phase 3, NNPC Tower, Ceddi Plaza bridge; Gana Street by Transcorp, DSS Headquarters, Phase 1, National Assembly Junction, Bulet House and Bayelsa House”.
The deployment, the police chief said, is also characterised by heavy visibility policing as would be witnessed at the various traffic control points to aid the free flow of traffic, stop and search, vehicular and foot patrol among many others.
A statement yesterday by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer spokesman, DSP Josephine Adeh, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), reads: “The APC presidential primary election is scheduled to hold from Monday, June 6 to Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at Eagle’s Square. The event is often associated with a high influx of different calibres of people, especially the politicos, thereby requiring an argumentation of the working security architecture of the FCT.
“Given the above, to effectively police the territory within the period in view and beyond, an all-encompassing security deployment has been made.”
While registering the command’s unflinching commitment to the sustenance of the relative peace and tranquility enjoyed and a boost in the onward march against crime and criminality in the territory, urged all and sundry to shun all forms of violence during the period in view and beyond.
