The Federal Government on Thursday said that it would deal decisively with anyone planning to cause violence during the forthcoming general election.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN), who issued the threat in Abuja, said that all security agencies had been put on the alert.
He said, �Let me sound a note of warning to those who plan to engage in thuggery and violence during the elections that government will bring the full weight of the law on them.
�Be they members of the Peoples Democratic Party or any other party, government will apply the law to those who want to violate the Electoral Act 2006.�
Asked to give his opinion on the judgment of Justice Abubakar Tijani of the Federal High Court that Vice-President Atiku Abubakar�s name should be put on the ballot paper as the presidential candidate of the Action Congress, Ojo said that everybody was free to interpret the judgment of the court as it suited them.
He said, �Judgments of courts have now been turned to a football match upon whom they can make comments.
�They are entitled to their comments and interpretations but I know as a fact that Vice-President Atiku Abubakar had filed a case to nullify his indictment.
�Am aware that judgment is yet to be given in that case.�
Ojo said that the plethora of cases pending in court against INEC would not stop the election.
He explained that it was to foreclose a shift of the elections following the death of the Alliance for Democracy�s presidential candidate, Chief Adebayo Adefarati, that he filed an action last week.