A corps member, a supervisor employed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, and another person were detained on Saturday, according to Osun State Police Command agents, for manipulating the ongoing distribution of Permanent Voter Cards in Osu, Osun State.
38 PVCs were found on the accused, according to additional information from the police.
This was said in a statement issued by Yemisi Opalola, the command’s spokesperson.
According to the PPRO, police have also started looking for two PDP members named Wale Ojo and Ijamakinwa Olaoluwa for pressuring a corps member to give a PVC that belonged to one voter to another.
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.”
When asked for comment, Dr. Akindele Adekunle, the caretaker chairman of the Osun PDP, declared that no PDP member would take part in any criminal activity.
He continued, “It might be a part of the APC’s broad scheme to indict our people.
“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.”
