Nigeria, June 19 -- The police have said measures have been taken to curb voter inducement and vote-buying during the Ekiti Governorship Election on Saturday.

The Coordinating Commissioner of Police for the election, Abayomi Shogunle, who spoke at an interactive session on Thursday in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, assured residents of adequate security arrangements to ensure the safe movement of election materials and the peaceful, free, and credible conduct of the election on Saturday.

Mr Shogunle said in line with the directive of the Inspector-General of Police, security personnel had already been deployed to escort both sensitive and non-sensitive materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the 16 local government areas of t...