AHEAD of the Saturday 16th Presidential and National Assembly election, the National Orientation Agency (NOA), has appealed to the political class to desist from comments that could incite violence. Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Director General of NOA, Dr Garba Abari said any politician who uses inciting utterances would be held accountable. “In the light of the very unsettling and highly combustible statements credited to politicians in recent weeks, I call on our politicians, across all divides, to desist from making utterances capable of inciting violence in an already charged polity. “No politician will ever send his own child to engage in political violence because they know the destructive effects of violence on both the perpetrator and the victim. From that dialogue, it was clear that election security duties are essentially for the police under the directive of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 13, 2019 12:11 UTC