{"id":6181,"date":"2026-05-06T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:54:12","slug":"2027-polls-no-political-party-candidate-will-get-preferential-treatment-igp-disu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/2027-polls-no-political-party-candidate-will-get-preferential-treatment-igp-disu\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 Polls: No Political Party, Candidate Will Get Preferential Treatment \u2014 IGP Disu"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of the off-cycle and 2027 general elections, the inspector-general of police, IGP Olatunji Disu, has warned that no political parties or candidates will get preferential from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).<br \/><br \/>The IGP, who stated that everyone will be treated equally, noted that the Nigeria Police will maintain the electoral guidance and ensure peaceful elections.<br \/><br \/>IGP Disu stated this when the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN), led a delegation of the INEC management team to Force headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.<br \/><br \/>He said, \u201cNigeria Police Force is the lead agency for internal security and we are ever ready for peaceful elections. We will strive to ensure to ensure peaceful and violence free elections.<br \/><br \/>\u201cI can assure you that no political party or candidate will receive preferential treatment from the police during the course of this elections. We will treat everyone equally and ensure a smooth elections.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The IGP also assured the INEC team of police protection and called for collaboration with all relevant stakeholders to achieve free, fair and peaceful elections.<br \/><br \/>Speaking earlier, the INEC chairman said they were at the Force headquarters to seek collaboration with the police for peaceful elections.<br \/><br \/>Professor Amupitan said the INEC team had visited the IGP to ensure that proper preparations in terms of security were put in place before the election.<br \/><br \/>He stated that INEC had identified violence and insecurity as some of the major threats to the forthcoming elections.<br \/><br \/>According to him, \u201cwithout proper arrangements and a secure environment, the electorate and the contesters will not even have opportunities for free and peaceful elections.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the off-cycle and 2027 general elections, the inspector-general of police, IGP Olatunji Disu, has warned that no political parties or candidates will get preferential from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). The IGP, who stated that everyone will be treated equally, noted that the Nigeria Police will maintain the electoral guidance and ensure peaceful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2027 Polls: No Political Party, Candidate Will Get Preferential Treatment \u2014 IGP Disu - Security Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2027 Polls: No Political Party, Candidate Will Get Preferential Treatment \u2014 IGP Disu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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