According to reports coming out of Jos, the Plateau State capital, there is a heavy security presence at Rwang Pam Township Stadium, the site of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign rally.
According to reports from within Nigeria, security operatives from various agencies such as the Nigerian Army, police officers, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were seen securing major routes leading into the venue.
According to available information, the Rwang Pam Stadium is adorned with various campaign materials such as posters, billboards, and others.
Security personnel were said to be having difficulty controlling the ecstatic supporters at the venue.
Bayo Onanuga, the presidential campaign council’s Director of Media and Publicity, told Punch that the campaign in Jos would be akin to a festival because it would mark the official start of Tinubu’s first rally.
He revealed that virtually all members of the PCC, from President Muhammadu Buhari to all members of the Progressive Governors Forum and the APC women’s campaign team, will attend the rally.
Onanuga, who described the heavy security presence at the venue as normal, said;
The local organising committee is fully in charge. We are just going there as guests. In all our engagements so far, the committee in each state is always responsible for arrangements including security.
Don’t forget, the president is coming too because this is the first rally we are having. But you are aware we have been campaigning before now. This is the very festival of the campaign.
All of us in the PCC directorates are going there in our aso ebi including the women campaign team.
Meanwhile, WITHIN NIGERIA has learned that the Plateau state APC Publicity Secretary, Sylvanus Namang, stated that the large turnout demonstrated that the party is widely accepted.
Namang, who was reported to have said the people outside the stadium were more than those inside noted that “This is a momentous crowd, the stadium is already filled to capacity.
“We have three screens outside the stadium, just stay there and watch, I can assure you that you will not miss anything.”
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