 The National Security Adviser, no Ribadu as I showed residents of Kogi by Elsa and emo states of security preparedness during the off-cycle elections coming up tomorrow, Saturday. The NSA warned against violence by political actors and charged security agencies to adhere to professional code of ethics during the conduct of the exercise. Ribadu for the ones that the monitoring system has been established with monitors employed to the field to collect any evidence of violence and irregularities joining us live to discuss this. Terence Kunum, security expert and public affairs commentator. Terence, good to have you on PlusPolitics. I am going to be in Nigeria. Terence, what is your summary take of the situations in Kogi, by Elsa and emo and I want you to take them individually? Thank you so much for having me. The situation on the land so far with England because everywhere is calm at the moment. There are no tensions during the last off-seasons elections in the number. So really thank God for that situation. I will hope that we achieve the level of peace we have always achieved during our off-seasons elections. We have a history in this country where our off-seasons elections are always treated to be more peaceful and credible than our general election. And we pray and hope that we achieve the same result tomorrow. It's quite important that we need peace in this country at the moment because the economic challenges we have already are a security threat. And the general situation in the country is tense. So we shouldn't use our relations to put tension in the country. So far the deployment has been excellent because we've seen the Nigerian police, the army, the children and everybody trying to do it, to mobilize in our peaceful elections tomorrow. So now the citizens also have the role to play by conducting themselves with the law so that we are going to have a peaceful election. We know that situations in the South East most especially are going to be tense because of activities of the unknown women and the issues that we have on the ground. So soon with the security mobilization, they will be able to compete in the way they did in a number. We have a capitalization where three parties are contesting clearly. So obviously they are going to be tense so the deployment will also expect them to be in top gear to be able to control. By this time it's a little bit calm. So we expect it to go like that today. So now the assessment we have regarding security in those situations and we encourage it to go like that today. Yes, is it me because sometimes when I'm reading security, the new face of security in circumstances like when open source intelligence is being used to call intelligence information and call unfortunate security circumstances, I just wonder, do our security operators and our security chiefs, do they also use similar infrastructure especially when this infrastructure can be free and be easily gotten and collected and can be used effectively to tackle some of the phenomena that are vaginous. Is it me that is a bit too distant from the reality of my environment or I read too much international magazines? You know, during security situations are encountered in politics. And there are a lot of speculation. Until we get to that day, then we are able to see the exaltary security deployment and arrangement that they made to call intelligence. Because all you have to see the intelligence that is on down to cut it, the situation tomorrow will not be revealed to you. Because that is how intelligence are operated. Then we saw in this situation, during a number of elections, where elections were threatened that they would not hold and this was it. Then we all stayed in this country and saw a peace relation and a very credible election. And that is why from the outset I could do that. We are optimistic on the basis of what we saw in other overseas research in this country. And that is why we are hoping that we will achieve the same results. We are hoping that we are going to get the same compression that we are going to get from the citizens. So that we are all together with the security agencies able to have a peaceful and credible election. So I can reasonably deduce from the last point that it is also equally important that the citizen, that is the human intelligence element too, that the citizens engage the security agencies with a view to protecting them effectively. Exactly. Because the peace of every election lies with the citizens. Especially the politicians, because the politicians are always out there to win every and six winning elections. And that is why security situations when they are in trouble with politics, they become so complex. Then, like I told you, all serious elections in Nigeria are expected to be more credible and peaceful than the general election. So we are optimistic that we are going to achieve the same results now. And hoping that nothing will come. But then the problem we are seeing also, we expect that this will be able to be on top of the situation, have come through things so that we can be able to apply. And not to... Hello, are you there? Yes, I'm here. About three or four days ago, there was this unfortunate situation in Kogi, when about three lives were snuffed out. We just hope that something that study like that will not repeat itself before, during and after these elections. But people like you in the security, in the intelligence and security community must be a bit disturbed that the electionarian campaigns ultimately led to the death of persons. What's the take of that? It got too concluded, it got too concluded that it was political campaigns that was in the race to president that was on ground. And so, because in the end, the investigation did not achieve any added, the investigation did not achieve anything to rely on and move on to as a threat. And so that's why we are saying that all these things are political campaigns. So, the politicians are the most volatile and the most... I really want to choose my words carefully, but the politicians from what have been hearing you say may be the weakest link of the security value chain for people like you who are security professionals. It is on ground that we are also on ground to monitor the situation. And what I am telling you, I am telling them that we have got that from the field. And if there was something that was a threat to the elections, we would have honestly informed you that this is the threat we have. But to speak this evening, we are not afraid of any of the threats to the elections. And so, if any threat comes as the election goes by, we are going to speak from Nigeria. But for now, the deployment has been increasing. All the materials have moved to the respective local government both sensitive and not sensitive materials. And so, by every standard, we are already having some sort of an election. When materials are more successful, there is no crisis in those commissions. We don't need to preempt crisis when we are not in it yet. We are on ground, we are monitoring our way to monitor on field elections and now, certainly. But in your line of business and in your line of specialty, it is always not over until it is over. You people are perpetually on alert. That's why I say we are monitoring on the elections and now. And we are also very confident that the elections in the free states will happen and happen successfully. We are not confident we are optimistic. We are optimistic. We are optimistic from what we have seen in Anambra, in Ushun and so we have said that this thing and also the election the people will be able to give us the results we have in those two states. That is how we are optimistic. We can be confident on what we are not doing ourselves. The secretive operatives are the one doing mobilization and all of that, people are not. But if you have any word of advice in closing now, if you have any word of advice for citizens in those three states who may want to perform their civil duty what would be your word of advice to them before and during the on the very day of the ballot? Fundamentally, the secretive of the elections depends with the secretive. It is a conduct that will bring peace and credibility to a nation. And so people have come out, people have campaigned, people have informed them of their manifestos and they also live with the people they know there. And so they should be able to go out and select the people they want. And the secretive is on top of the situation to make sure that the choice of the people is who is going to be announced to the government in Kodi, in Bahia and in India. The voice of the people should count and whatever business we have, we are going to be updating, we are going to be working closely with YouTube and we are going to be updating and doing as the days go by. Terence Kwanum, security expert and public affairs commentator, we say thank you. Thank you for reaching. Thank you.