Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu on Tuesday, November 19 disclosed that the uniformed men who disrupted electoral processes in Bayelsa and Kogi states were fake policemen.
The IGP stated this while briefing journalists in the presidential villa after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to him, some politicians had sewn police uniforms for their supporters during the elections to disrupt the process in their favour.
Photos and videos of armed uniformed men had surfaced on the internet, showing them disrupting the exercise in several areas.
The IGP insisted that those in the circulated photos and vidoes are not the personnel officially deployed for election duties by the police force.
He said that investigation is on to identify those that caused violence during the elections, adding that 11 arrests have been made so far.
