Security will be tightened across the country, withincreased deployment of personnel in potentially volatile states, ahead of theMarch 9 governorship and state Houses of Assembly polls. This was part of the decisions taken at aclosed-door meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and Service Chiefs inAbuja. The security chiefs at the meeting were the Chief ofDefence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, LieutenantGeneral Yusuf Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok-Ete Ibas; and the Chief ofAir Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar among others. The meeting resolved that security agencies shoulddo all within their means to ensure peaceful elections by stopping personsplanning to cause mayhem. The acting Inspector General of Police Adamu, whospoke with State House correspondents after the meeting, said some states inthe Niger Delta Region would be watched, while additional personnel would bedeployed there.