 Or staying in a number of states ahead of the governorship election, the Inspector General of Police Osman Baba has ordered a restriction of vehicle and movement in the state. In the statement, the IGP said the restriction is part of measures aimed at protecting the sanctity of the electoral process on Saturday. According to the statement, there would be no movement of vehicles in and out of a number of states from 11.59 p.m. on Friday, November 5th to 11.59 p.m. on Saturday, November 6th. We're now live to a number of states where we are being joined by political correspondent Marianne O'Cohen. Good evening to you, Marianne. Many thanks for joining us and plus a news now. Thank you. All right, can you tell us exactly what's the state of affairs right now in a number of states? What's the mood like? As I said earlier this evening, it's very calm. There's no pandemonium as suggested on social media, you know. The streets are calm. There's close to, almost close to no movement. And that's as a result of the fact that people are still scared as to the state at home order, even though iPod has come out to say that they've listed that state at home order. But people are still yet to get some clarity from government and security approaches. So people are sitting tight in their homes, shops are closed, various campsy businesses are open. Do you hardly see any big stores or shops or supermarkets open? Everybody's just keeping it low. All right, from what we learned today, the governorship candidate signed a piece of court to ensure that the elections would run smoothly come Saturday. Can you tell us more about that? Well, earlier today there was a piece of court that was agreed to and signed by all the governorship candidates on the, and this was overseen by the former head of state, Italian general Abu Salaam Abu Bakr, also in attendance was Bishop Masih Kouka. This is something that we see every time elections, especially in states, are to be held. And most of these candidates said that there will not be violence. But in the case of a number, we're known of pockets of violence here and there. One would only hope that everybody would appear to be piped at and continuously called for peace and calm during the supposed combatting. All right, let's talk about the electoral empire. Now that's the independence, national electoral commission, INEC. So far, what can you tell us as we got some preparations in vis-à-vis sensitive and non-sensitive materials? So I did speak a few minutes ago with the auto education director, I beg your pardon, Mr. Fethwa Gokoye. And he did say that sensitive materials had been detached from the CVN to all the local government areas in Anambra as we speak. And so all of those materials are going to be ready as of Saturday morning. So there will not be a case where people will say they're still waiting for materials to arrive. All right, what can you tell us so far concerning security? Well, what we have seen since we got to Oka is a show of force of thought. We've seen policemen, we've seen soldiers patrolling continuously the streets of Oka, once they're making sure, obviously, that there is peace and calm, although the people that we spoke to on the streets seem to see this as a case for which they would rather stay at home because they feel that they are in a case of a war. But there are mixed reactions to be actually. There are people who feel safer as they have security approaches patrolling the streets. And there are also people who are scared of the fact that these security approaches might, one way or the other, cause further adversity. All right, so before we let you go, Mary and Sofa, from the opinions that you have sampled from the electorate today, would you really see a situation where people would come out, like that AIPOP has actually rescinded its stay at home, seated home order? Well, like I said earlier on this, the issue is that there is no clarity from the government and security approaches. And I did interview a few people off camera and they kept saying the government has not necessarily come out to say that there is a seat at home order or there is a state of emergency. So it doesn't mean that anybody's been stopped from going out. But then they also want to hear from the government saying to them that, well, you're all safe to come out. You can come and vote. All they can hear is muster of saying that, well, we're going to make sure that, you know, elections are safe, violence free, but they haven't really heard from government. So I think this is the issue and there's a confusion of sorts because there are mixed messages being sent out to the people. All right. Thank you so much, Mary-Anne Odom. Talk to you subsequently in order bulletins to bring us up to speed as regards the election comes Saturday. Thank you very much. Hello. 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