 The Independent National Electro-Commission, INEC says political parties should prevail on their supporters to refrain from active violence during the governorship and state assembly polls. INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu spoke during a meeting of interagency consultative committee on election security. The INEC chairman thanked security agencies for the professionalism of their personnel and largely peaceful conduct of the presidential election. He said INEC's state officers have provided the pleas with the details for the governorship and the state assembly elections, including the location of polling units and collision centres. I wish to express the commission's appreciation to the security agencies and other members of XS for the professionalism of personnel and the generally peaceful conduct of the last election. We look forward to improved performance in the election holding this weekend. The governorship election will hold in 28 states of the federation. As we are aware, governorship elections in eight states, Anambra, Baelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Emo, Kogi, Ondo, and Ocean states are held off-cycle and therefore not conducted during the general election. The National Security Advisor, NSA, Hibaba Ganamwgono called on political gladiators in the country to call their supporters to order ahead of the footcoming governorship and state assembly elections. He also said security agencies will work round the clock to ensure that polls are conducted safely in the country. Of course, the elections we are going into on Saturday are going to be much more complicated, contextually they are going to be different. First of all, we are going to have 1021 constituencies, meaning we are going to have more people interested, more people voting, more collision centres, and obviously the dynamics will be much more different than the elections that were just concluded. I want to also urge the same individuals, especially at the state level, to demonstrate the same level of maturity, the same level of discipline by calling their supporters to conduct themselves in a manner that is congruent with the expectations of the larger Nigerian society.