The Anambra State Police command has debunked the news trending on social media and other conventional media platforms on the purported killing of the chairman Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC).
In a statement signed by Dsp Nwode Nkeiruka, head media police team for 2021 Anambra Guber election, the statement read in part, "For avoidance of doubt and the purpose of clarity, the command wishes to state that the Independent Electoral Commission Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu held a stakeholders meeting in Awka today 2nd November, 2021 and stated the preparedness of the commission to hold peaceful election in the state. While the security agencies is ever ready to enforce their statutory responsibility to ensure hitch free exercise.*
He stressed further that the CP hereby urges journalist and other well meaning individuals to join the fight against crime reporting contents that don't contrast current state of security in the society as they too should be agent of Law and order.
In view of the foregoing, the CP want to state unequivocally that the publication is false and absolutely misleading. It is a figment of imagination deliberately orchestrated by the mischief makers to cause unnecessary tension and chaos in the polity.
