 Meanwhile, ahead of the election, an additional 25,000 policemen has been deployed to beef up security in local government elections in legal state. The chairperson, Legal State's independent Electoral Commission, La SIEC Justice I.O. Phillips, disclosed this on Friday. Phillips explained that the Commissioner of Police for Legal State gave her the assurance earlier in the day. In the run-up to the elections, the Alliance of Social Democrats and 10 other political parties had filed a suit against La SIEC and the state government, sickened to stop it. But a federal high cut sitting in Lagos on Friday rejected the appeal. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.