The Chief of The Air Staff (CAS) Air Marshall Sadique
Abubakar yesterday said the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Tuesday commenced the
Airlift of election materials for supplementary elections.
He spoke during the quarterly CAS conference with Branch
Chiefs and Air Officers Commanding (AOC) at the headquarters of the Nigerian
Air Force in Abuja.
He noted that “for the supplementary elections, our aircraft
were able to convey some materials yesterday to Jalingo, Yola, and Bauchi.”
He said, “Similarly we are rounding up the distribution of
supplementary election materials to other areas the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) wants us to go.”
He said the NAF was we were able to airlifts over 820,000
kilograms of electoral materials using eight aircraft to 31 different locations
in Nigeria.
It was gathered that the Nigeria Air Force was part of the
joint security committee set up by INEC for the 2019 general election but were
brought into the logistics committee at the last minute.
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