{"id":1129,"date":"2023-11-08T20:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T20:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ahead-guber-election-army-flags-off-operation-safe-conduct-in-imo\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T20:04:35","slug":"ahead-guber-election-army-flags-off-operation-safe-conduct-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ahead-guber-election-army-flags-off-operation-safe-conduct-in-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead guber election, Army flags off Operation Safe Conduct in Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ahead of the Nov. 11 governorship election, the General Officer Commanding 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Hassan Dada, has flagged off \u201cOperation Safe Conduct\u201d in Imo State.<\/p>\n<p>The GOC performed the exercise in a brief ceremony at the 34 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Obinze, Owerri, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dada, who described the operation as \u201ca measure by the Nigerian military to ensure the security of all stakeholders in the electioneering process,\u201d said that a show of force would be carried out by officers in the three senatorial districts of the state ahead of the election.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the exercise was to restore the confidence of the electorate and to assure them of adequate security ahead of the election.<\/p>\n<p>He advised his officers to remain nonpartisan and to get conversant with the Nigerian Army Code of Conduct for election duty while cooperating with other security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Dada said to the troops: \u201cOurs is to ensure that people come out and discharge their duties seamlessly while remaining nonpartisan. You must protect all INEC officials and election materials but don\u2019t touch the materials. I will not accept any excuses for any lapses. Do not accept any tip-off from anybody; if you are found wanting, you will be court-martialled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He advised citizens who might be thinking about causing trouble to think otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are here to make trouble will have us to contend with; we are more than adequately prepared,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead guber election, Army flags off Operation Safe Conduct in Imo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Nov. 11 governorship election, the General Officer Commanding 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Hassan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,15],"tags":[317,14,1135,155,637,253,118,180,635,918,2199],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imo","category-news","tag-ahead","tag-army","tag-conduct","tag-election","tag-flags","tag-guber","tag-imo","tag-news","tag-off","tag-operation","tag-safe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}