The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, yesterday said over 400,000 personnel from various security agencies would be deployed for the conduct of the coming general elections in the country.

He announced this while featuring at the Ministerial Media Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said, out of this, the police would provide about three thousand personnel while the balance would be complemented by military and other security agencies in the country.

Baba, while speaking on the deployment of security personnel for the coming general elections, said: “From INEC records, there exist 176,846 polling units in 8,809 wards of the 36 states of the federation and FCT, where the elections will be conducted.

The IGP, who listed some threats against the conduct of the elections including fuel scarcity and cash squeeze, assured that the situation with both would stabilise before the commencement of the exercise.