Former Ogun State gubernatorial candidate and PDP chieftain Segun Showunmi has blamed the Inspector General of Police for inadequate security provision during Osun State’s local government elections, particularly noting Governor Ademola Adeleke’s lack of protection.
In an Arise TV interview from 3:53, Showunmi strongly criticized the current policing approach: “I want to vehemently state that the Inspector General of police does not understand the multi-dimensional policing structure that we have,” he declared.
Showunmi emphasized the parallel responsibilities of police protection for the President and the Governor: “The same way he operates in the office of the chief security officer of the presidency to the president is the same way he should operate in the state; that is why the chief security officer of the state is vested in a governor.”
The PDP chieftain expressed concern over what he perceived as a dereliction of duty: “His duty was to have ensured that his men and all of the people that are there go in there to provide and support the governor, and not to become an interested party, supposedly trying to even frustrate them. I saw the governor at the polling unit; I couldn’t find any security details there.”
He called for impartial police service across political lines: “I want to discourage the idea that the concept of multilayer policing does not mean that the police chief only answers to the ruling party and the party of the president. He must be Inspector General of police to all of us, including those people who are not even either against them or neutral, or even the quarrelsome ones.”
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