{"id":21882,"date":"2020-02-26T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=21882"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:41:13","slug":"police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll","title":{"rendered":"Police warns politicians ahead of September poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police commissioner in Edo State, Lawan Tanko Jimeta has cautioned politicians in the State to desist from any act capable of inciting violence and political crisis as the September election of the State draws closer.<\/p>\n<p>CP Jimeta said no crisis whether political is healthy for any nation or State that wishes to grow both economically and in terms of infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The State police boss said this when addressing newsmen at a stakeholders\u2019 meeting with sister security agencies, non-governmental organizations and members of political party present in Benin City the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u2018We as security personnel will make sure this ugly incident does not repeat itself, because it will scare away development in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No more room for thuggery and lawlessness. The use of explosive is becoming worrisome. Political crisis does not guarantee political success. We are talking to you people as stakeholders so that you can talk to your people, \u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that security operatives will be all out for anybody that breaks the law as such person will face the music and will be brought to book.<\/p>\n<p>He said,\u201d We are warning mischief and trouble makers to either leave Edo State or turn a new leaf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He advised politicians and their supporters to always think of a better Edo State in all their doings.<\/p>\n<p>Other agencies present at the stakeholders meeting where the DSS, Prisons, Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigerian military, NSCDC and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police commissioner in Edo State, Lawan Tanko Jimeta has cautioned politicians in the State to desist from any act capable of inciting violence and political crisis as the September election of the State draws closer. CP Jimeta said no crisis whether political is healthy for any nation or State that wishes to grow both economically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[694,1281],"class_list":["post-21882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-edo-state","tag-nigeria-police-force"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police warns politicians ahead of September poll - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police commissioner in Edo State, Lawan Tanko Jimeta has cautioned politicians in the State to desist from any act capable of inciting violence and political\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police warns politicians ahead of September poll\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police commissioner in Edo State, Lawan Tanko Jimeta has cautioned politicians in the State to desist from any act capable of inciting violence and political\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-26T14:41:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Acting-Inspector-General-of-Police-IGP-Mr-Mohammed-Adamu-5d80ed541f543.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Police warns politicians ahead of September poll\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-26T14:41:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Acting-Inspector-General-of-Police-IGP-Mr-Mohammed-Adamu-5d80ed541f543.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Edo state\",\"Nigeria Police Force\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/police-warns-politicians-ahead-of-september-poll\",\"name\":\"Police warns politicians ahead of September poll - 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