The Nigerian Air Force has started airlifting both “sensitive and non-sensitive” electoral materials to states for the February 16, 2019 elections.
The development was disclosed in a statement by the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola.
“The airlift exercise includes day and night missions, during which both sensitive and non-sensitive electoral materials are conveyed in batches, with NAF C-130 Hercules aircraft from the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja to various airports across the country,” NAF said.
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Reiterating the Air Force’s commitment to assisting the Independent National Electoral Commission in executing their civil responsibilities, the statement read, “it is pertinent to state that the transport aircraft are deployed solely to provide airlift support to meet INEC’s logistics requirement in fulfilment of NAF’s constitutional role of providing military aid to the civil authority,” the statement added.
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