Osun State Police Command, on Saturday, said it apprehended
a corps member, a supervisor working with the Independent National Electoral
Commission, and one other over manipulation of ongoing distribution of
Permanent Voter Cards in Osu, Osun State.
The police also said 38 PVCs were recovered from the
suspects.
A statement by the spokesperson for the command, Yemisi
Opalola, obtained in Osogbo, noted that its officers have also launched a
manhunt for two members of the Peoples Democratic Party, Wale Ojo and
Ijamakinwa Olaoluwa, for inducing the corps member to give a PVC belonging to a
particular voter to another person.
The statement read in part, “On 30th June, 2022 at about
1040hrs, the complainant reported at Osu Division that, on 29th June, 2022, at
about 1000hrs, he went to Independent National Electoral Commission office
located at the Atakumosa West Local Government Area, Osu, Osun State, to
collect his permanent Voter Card but could not find it.
“He consequently
demanded for the register and discovered that, one Orji Desmond Nkenna, a corps
member attached to INEC office as an ad hoc staff in charge of Voter Cards’
distribution has collected his PVC on the order of one Wale Ojo and Ijamakinwa
Olaoluwa, now at large, both members of the Peoples Democratic Party for
financial 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.”
But when contacted for reaction, the Osun PDP Caretaker
Chairman, Dr. Akindele Adekunle, said no member of the PDP would get involved
in any illegal act, adding that “It could be part of a grand plan of the APC to
indict our members.
“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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