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The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged security agencies to provide adequate protection for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and other personnel to man polling units.
He spoke when the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi visited him in his palace.
The sultan urged the public, especially politicians, to ensure the safety of corps members.
Abubakar informed Olawumi of the directive from the Sultanate Council to all district heads to ensure safety of corps members in their domain. This, he said, should be replicated in other parts of the country.
He enjoined corps members not to be deterred by upheavals of the past, but to consider their engagement in the elections as a national duty.
Sultan Abubakar urged them to go into the electoral assignment with a high sense of patriotism and to avoid identifying with any party.
He reminded politicians that winners had been pre-destined by God and wondered why some of them viewed elections as a do-or-die affair.
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