Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Christopher Musa while addressing troops at the headquarters of the 4 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, said that: “We want to have the best election in Edo State, and we are ready, Vanguard news reports.

"You have been briefed on what parts you are supposed to play, we are working as a team and we are all Nigerians here, nobody is more Nigerian than the other person.

“With other security forces, we are going to work together as a team: the police, the civil defence, DSS and all the others. We know the election has a lot of issues, there are a lot of expectations and we want this election to go without any rancour. We don’t want any disturbance, nobody should come and intimidate anybody.

“On election day, our duty is to ensure the election is free, fair and credible. INEC is the one conducting the election, the Nigerian police are the lead agency in security, so we must provide that security.

“We know the Armed Forces are the last hope of the nation, we cannot afford to fail ourselves or fail our nation. None of us will do anything that will put the Armed Forces in disrepute, I don’t want to hear that it is the Armed Forces that has caused one problem here and there. No.

“Our goal is to provide security. No other agency in the name of vigilante, hunters or other names should carry arms. Only the statutory security agencies are allowed to carry arms and operate on that Saturday.

“Your commanders will show and direct you on what to do, we are restricting movement, no convoy movement, everybody should just walk to voting centres and go back. Election should not be a war, we don’t want anybody injured, we don’t want anybody killed.

‘’Anybody who decides to carry any weapon, whether cutlass, dane gun or any other thing, we must get that person. I want this election to be the best ever and we can make that happen, we made that possible in the last three states and this one will not be different.

‘’We have a task on Saturday, everybody in the world is watching what will happen in Edo on Saturday and you must not allow anybody to compromise you.”