People and organizations planning to sabotage Saturday's governorship and state assembly elections have received a strong warning from the police.

This development follows the viral video of MC Oluomo telling people to stay at home if they won't vote APC in the next governorship elections.

The warning was given on Thursday in Umuahia while John Amadi, the deputy inspector general of police in charge of the South-East, addressed members of the state command at the Police Officers' Mess.

“Anybody that wants to disrupt the system should be ready to die, and anybody that wants to die should come out and disrupt the system. If you love your life, keep away, cast your vote, go home and wait for the result,”

Amadi assured the Abia electorate that the elections would go as planned and advised them to dismiss any threats to halt the voting.

“On behalf of the inspector general of police and the management team, I assure you that there would not be any infractions. I can assure you that we are ready. We belong to Nigerians, and this is the time to make everybody know that our primary responsibility is to protect lives and property. We have assured Nigerians and the South-East that nobody should entertain any fears.

Anybody that wants to snatch ballot boxes or disrupt the elections will be promptly dealt with. We have deployed our men to dominate all the areas that we think that trouble would erupt from. So we are sounding a note of warning to criminals and non-state agents that we would not tolerate anything that would not allow the people to cast their vote and choose who they want to represent them.”

He assured visitors to the state, including election monitors and observers, of their safety, saying, “We also assure you that INEC officials and materials must be adequately protected.”