Over 70, 000 security operatives have been deployed to Osun State ahead of the governorship election tomorrow.

Confirming the deployment, the Deputy Commandant General of the NSCDC in charge of Operations, Mr. Evans Chidi, said the move was to ensure security of lives and property during the governorship election.

Chidi advised that individual and group who have no business in the Osun elections should leave the state.

He said: “Proper synergy of the NSCDC with other security agencies is to ensure that there is peace in Osun. We are committed to ensuring that the electorate, ad hoc staff and materials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are protected and secured.

“We would make sure that miscreants and people who have been defined as enemies of this country do not infiltrate into Osun State to truncate the exercise.

“We are not only deploying human personnel, but we are also deploying about 100 dogs to Osun State and out of the 100 dogs, we have about 15 of them that have just arrived from the United States of America and they have been trained. These dogs have been undergoing training for the past one month by American experts. Their assignment for coming here is to detect the composition of every IED.”