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

An INEC staff and a PDP leader were arrested in Ogun State for allegedly planning to buy votes in the upcoming election. The suspects were caught in a hotel in Ikenne local government area on Saturday, August 16, in a viral video.

According to reports, the INEC staff had collected a large sum of money from the PDP leader for vote-buying. In a separate incident, Princess Esther Ashivelli Dawaki, a PDP candidate for the House of Representatives in Kaduna, was allegedly kidnapped along with 25 supporters on election day.

The PDP chairman in the state, Edward Percy Masha, accused a joint security network of carrying out the arrests and called for the immediate release of the detained individuals. Masha also called for the intervention of President Bola Tinubu, the Director General of DSS, the Inspector General of Police, the Chief of Defence Staff, and the Chief of Army Staff.

The PDP condemned the arrests, alleging that the.