Police commissioner Ahmed Ammani says the Enugu command recorded huge success during the presidential and federal parliamentary elections, declaring nobody was killed.

Mr Ammani said this on Tuesday during an interactive session with journalists at the end of an Inter-agency Consultation Committee on Election Security meeting in Enugu.

According to him, no life was lost during and after the elections.

“This is why the committee members and heads of security agencies should give glory to God for being with us in the state,” he said.

The police chief said the security agencies made no arrests during and after the polls. He gave the people kudos, saying they conducted themselves in an orderly and mature manner.

“The election was peaceful, free, fair and credible,” stated Mr Ammani, the committee’s co-chair. “Even in an axis, we got information that hoodlums were trying to cause havoc. They ran away before the arrival of my men,” said the. 

He added, “After that singular incident, every part of the state remained calm. There was no clear threat to the security of life and property during and after the elections.”

He commended the efforts of the various security agencies for their active collaboration and unflinching support that led to a violence-free exercise in Enugu.

Also, INEC’s resident electoral commissioner in Enugu, Chukwuemeka Chukwu, said the commission succeeded during the polls.

“The commission ensured that no registered voter that presented himself at the polling unit was disenfranchised because the electorate came out en masse for the exercise. Our staff members worked late into the night on the election day, and for areas that we did not conclude, they resumed at 8:00 a.m. the next day and ended by noon,” Mr Chukwu explained.

(NAN)