For smooth off-cycle elections this weekend, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the deployment of fresh 220 operational vehicles and other logistical equipment.
  
He had organised training for officers on security management and sought approval of the Federal Government for payment of their allowances to boost morale of the officers during the operations. 
   
The IGP, therefore, urged stakeholders to embrace peace and rule of law before, during and after the polls. Meanwhile, the Coalition of Civil Society Groups, has charged the IGP to tackle the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Dino Melaye, over his alleged involvement in a 2007 mayhem. 
  
It accused him of instigating the reported violence that led to alleged murder of his political opponents when he contested and won the Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency seat in the 2007 House of Representatives election.
  
Convener of the group, Wisdom Chinedu, who addressed a press briefing in Abuja, said those, who allegedly died in controversial circumstances during the 2007 poll, include Jimoh Asimi and Victor Obafaiye.
  
He said: “While in the tribunal, Akanmode had a star witness, who saw the violence happen and how his kinsmen escaped death with one unlucky victim murdered. His name is Victor Obafaiye, and was equally an agent of the ACN.
 
“It may interest you to note that just a day before his appearance before the tribunal slated for Monday, he got a strange call on Sunday night, instructing him to come outside his house. That was the last that was heard of him, as he was also murdered in cold blood and his head smashed.”