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Elections in 2023: Buhari sends new directive to the Nigeria Immigration Service
In anticipation of the upcoming general election in February, President Muhammadu Buhari gave the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) instructions on Tuesday to improve border monitoring and control.
Sola Fasure, the media adviser to Rauf Aregbesola, the interior minister, said this in a statement that was released in Abuja.
While opening the Katsina NIS Command office and launching the upgraded e-Passport in the state, Aregbesola delivered Buhari’s instructions.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that Nigeria’s borders be made impenetrable to foreign entities that might wish to come in and manipulate the electoral process or participate in other nefarious actions, the man added.
Aregbesola claims that the President has instructed the NIS to make Nigeria’s borders impregnable up until the time that all elections in the country are completed.
According to Obasanjonews24, there are fewer than four weeks until the 2023 elections.