Combat-ready policemen are positioned at strategic points in Yola, Adamawa state capital, especially around the INEC office.
Gatekeepers News reports that a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), Ali Aji Janga, has been deployed to supervise security for the supplementary elections scheduled for today.
In a statement by the police spokesman in the state, Sulaiman Nguroje, noted that the commissioner of police in the state, Muhammed Barde, who had just assumed duty as election commissioner, received the DIG and other senior officers who arrived the state.
Meanwhile, the INEC in Adamawa has distributed sensitive materials for the conduct of governorship and state assembly supplementary elections.
Addressing journalists during the distribution on Friday, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa Ari said the elections would be conducted in 69 poling units.
