Breaking: INEC Staff, PDP Leader Arrested With Cash in Ogun
- The police have arrested some staff members of the INEC with a huge amount of money allegedly meant to buy votes in the ongoing bye-election
- Reports indicated that the INEC officials were arrested along with a prominent politician, who some people said was a chieftain of the PDP
- According to the police, the investigation showed that the INEC officials had earlier received some payments from the politician before the bye-election day
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.
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How police arrest INEC staff in Ogun
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.
PDP alleges kidnapping of Rep candidate
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.
PDP accuses APC of Kaduna bye-election
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.
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.”
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PDP agent arrested in Kaduna bye-election
Legit.ng earlier reported that the police, in conjunction with other security agents, have arrested a PDP agent with the cash sum of N25 million in the Kaduna bye-election.
According to the police authority, the suspect confessed that the money was meant to induce voters in the election and begged for leniency.
Kaduna is one of the 12 states in the country where bye-elections are being held on Saturday, August 16, to fill vacant positions in the National and state Houses of Assembly.
Source: Legit.ng
