IMOKE ASSURES HAUSA COMMUNITY OF SAFTY DURING ELECTION IN CROSS RIVER

Government Liyel Imoke of Cross River State yesterday re-assured the Hausa community in the state of their safty even as he said that the government has made adequate arrangement for thier security urging them not to panic over their safty in the forth coming elections.

Briefing newsmen in Calabar, Special Adviser to the governor on Religious Matters, Pastor Eyo Okpo-Ene gave the assurance on Thursday while refuting rumours that northerners were moving out of the state for fear of crisis during the elections.

The SA stated that the sate government has always protected all the tribal communities in the state, especially the Hausa community and there was no cause for alarm.
“I am really not aware of the exodus of the northerners because they know that they have always been safe in the state. I have a good relationship with the Hausa community and we have always protected their interest,” he said.

The SA on Religious matter maintained that the country will not break “but there will be isolated skirmishes here and there”, explaining that such skirmishes should be expected as this election would be the most keenly contested in recent history.

“The fear that the country will break is unfounded because after the elections, the same political class will still meet to relate together. Although I am not ruling out the possibility of isolated skirmishes here and there, I don’t think that calls for such movements,” Okpo-Ene emphasized.

He said that his office would do everything to interface with the Hausa community in the state to reassure them of their safety, saying there was no reason for the fear.

“Elections will come and go and we will still remain Nigerians, so why should anybody want to move abruptly away from an environment he has become used to. I will reach out to the Hausa community and reassure them of the commitment of the state government to protect them,” he noted.