Breaking: INEC Staff, PDP Leader Arrested With Cash in Ogun

Breaking: INEC Staff, PDP Leader Arrested With Cash in Ogun

Some suspected staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun state have been arrested by security operatives with a huge amount of money ahead of the bye-election in the state.

They were said to have been arrested along with a politician, who some people said was a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and are accused of allegedly planning to buy votes in the election.

INEC officials, PDP chairman reportedly caught in viral video with cash to buy votes.
Police arrest INEC official, PDP chairman Photo Credit: @inecnigeria
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The Punch reported that the suspects were caught at a hotel in Iperu-Remo in the Ikenne local government area of the Southwest state on Saturday, August 16.

In a viral video, the officials of the electoral body, a man and a woman, were caught squatting while responding to questions from the security agents.

According to the officer interrogating them, the intelligence report indicated that the INEC staff had been contacted earlier, and they had collected a large amount of money from party officials for vote buying during the election.

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In another report, Princess Esther Ashivelli Dawaki, the House of Representatives and PDP candidate in the Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency bye-election in Kaduna, has allegedly been kidnapped along with 25 supporters on the election day.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) raised the alarm while addressing journalists at a press conference in Kaduna on Saturday, August 16. The PDP chairman in the state, Edward Percy Masha, alleged that the joint security network carried out the operation.

He alleged that the security operatives had stormed a hotel in Malalu to arrest the PDP campaign council chairman, Hussein Ahmed-Kero, but he was nowhere to be found, and the officer then allegedly whisked away Dawaki and the 25 supporters.

The leading opposition then condemned the development, alleging that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was responsible for the "act of harassment, intimidation, and insanity". The party then called for the immediate release of its candidate and other members arrested by the security agencies.

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Masha then called for the intervention of President Bola Tinubu, the Director General of the DSS, Inspector General of Police, the Chief of Defence Staff, and the Chief of Army Staff, while calling the arrest an “egregious abuse of power.”

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with over 5 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023) by Legit.ng. Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng

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