The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor MAHMOOD YAKUBU has held an emergency meeting on election security with heads of security agencies at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.

In attendance at the meeting was the National Security Adviser BABAGANA MONGUNU, the Director-General National Intelligence Agency AHMED ABUBAKAR, among others.

Professor YAKUBU explained that the meeting was necessary due to the recent attacks on INEC facilities in the South-East and South-South.