{"id":69718,"date":"2020-09-19T17:56:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T16:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/?p=69718"},"modified":"2020-09-19T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T16:56:37","slug":"i-will-slap-you-if-you-call-me-soldier-tells-voters-in-edo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/i-will-slap-you-if-you-call-me-soldier-tells-voters-in-edo\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Will Slap You If You Call Me’ – Soldier Tells Voters In Edo"},"content":{"rendered":"

#EdoDecides: Soldier threatens to slap anyone who asks him to settle dispute at polling unit<\/p>\n

One of the soldiers deployed to maintain peace and security in the governorship election process at Akoko-Edo council area of Edo state has threatened to slap anyone who approaches him to settle a dispute.<\/p>\n

As part of measures of tackling insecurity, the federal government had deployed additional security operatives in Edo<\/p>\n

But many of them have lamented hardship, saying provisions were not made for their welfare.<\/p>\n

At Akoko Edo, a soldier simply identified as Nasiru told TheCable that he would ignore anyone who calls his attention to any dispute, recounting how he had resolved misunderstanding among some people earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was drafted from Asaba (in Delta) to here in Edo for the election. They called (us) to a fight at that polling unit (polling unit 007, ward 2, Uffa Ovoko) and we settled that matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other place we went to, I met an old woman who needed attention and I responded. But if anyone calls me again, I\u2019ll slap the person. I won\u2019t guide you people while I am hungry. I\u2019ll do my best, I don\u2019t know whoever will win this election. So, people should leave me alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#EdoDecides: Soldier threatens to slap anyone who asks him to settle dispute at polling unit One of the soldiers deployed to maintain peace and security in the governorship election process at Akoko-Edo council area of Edo state has threatened to slap anyone who approaches him to settle a dispute. As part of measures of tackling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5082],"class_list":["post-69718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-edo-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69720,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69718\/revisions\/69720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}