Osun: Police arrest INEC’s supervisor, two others for manipulation, recover 38 PVCs

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Osun State Police Command has apprehended a corps member, a supervisor working with the Independent National Electoral Commission, and one different over manipulation of ongoing distribution of Permanent Voter Cards in Osu, Osun State.

The police also said 38 PVCs have been recovered from the suspects.

A press release by the spokesperson for the command, Yemisi Opalola, on Saturday, in Osogbo, said police officers have launched a manhunt for two members of the Peoples Democratic Party, Wale Ojo and Ijamakinwa Olaoluwa, for inducing the corps member to provide a PVC belonging to a specific voter to a different particular person.

“On thirtieth June, 2022 at about 1040hrs, the complainant reported at Osu Division that, on twenty ninth June, 2022, at about 1000hrs, he went to Independent National Electoral Commission workplace situated on the Atakumosa West Local Government Area, Osu, Osun State, to gather his Voter Card however couldn’t discover it.

“He consequently demanded for the register and found that, one Orji Desmond Nkenna, a corps member hooked up to INEC workplace as an advert hoc workers in command of Voter Cards’ distribution has collected his PVC on the order of 1 Wale Ojo and Ijamakinwa Olaoluwa, now at giant, each members of the Peoples Democratic Party for monetary transaction.

“On receipt of the complaint, police detectives immediately swang into action and arrested the principal suspect along with the INEC supervisor to the alleged corps member, Mrs Makanjuola Bilahu, ‘f’, aged 58 years, and one Mr. Oluwatobi Ogini, ‘m’, aged 32 years, to investigate the level of their involvement,” the police said.

But the Osun PDP Caretaker Chairman, Dr. Akindele Adekunle, said no member of the PDP would be involved in any unlawful act, adding that “it might be part of a grand plan of the APC to indict our members.”

He stated that, “But I want to assure you that our party members are law-abiding and not capable of engaging in actions that will bring the party to disrepute.”

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