Don’t feed your supporters with hard drugs, Kwara CP cautions politicians

The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, has warned politicians against feeding their supporters with hard drugs.

Speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting yesterday, in Ilorin, the state capital, the police commissioner said, “Politicians should do well to embark on issue-based campaigns and no personality-based campaigns. 

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“They should ensure that their followers are civil in all their actions. They should shun thuggery and damage to billboards of opposing parties. They should not feed their supporters with hard drugs. As enshrined in the Electoral Law, vote-buying and selling will not be allowed.”

Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented the poor response to collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in the state.

Speaking during the stakeholders’ meeting, the INEC’s  Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Alhaji Madami, said from 2011 to 2019, the commission had a total number of 233,856 uncollected PVCs, adding that “Of this, only 20,752 were collected as at October this year leaving over 193,000 uncollected.”