Remo by-election: Police nab suspects with huge sums of cash in Ogun 

CITIZENS COMPASS—Men of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police, on Saturday, arrested two members of a political party and two staffers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Iperu Remo area of the State.

The suspects were with huge sums of cash allegedly meant for rigging the by-election into the Remo Federal Constituency House of Representatives.

The suspects, who were arrested in the early hours of Saturday, were reported to have provided very useful information to the police regarding their respective roles in the grand plan to bribe election officials and rig the House of Representatives by-election.

In a viral video, Police could be seen interrogating the suspects comprising four males and a female.

The INEC staffers, a man who identified himself simply as Constance and a woman who identified herself as Amina, claimed to have been sent by their supervisor to collect the money from a certain PDP politician in the area.

Meanwhile, Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has lauded the people of Remoland for conducting themselves in an orderly manner at the ongoing Remo Federal Constituency by-election into the House of Representatives.

Abiodun, who spoke while fielding questions from newsmen after casting his vote at Poling Unit 002, Ita Osanyin Ward, Iperu-Remo at 10:33 am, also applauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for prompt delivery of electoral materials.

He said: “I have just gladly exercised my franchise. I must say that I am quite impressed. The feedback I have gotten so far is that electoral materials arrived at the various polling units on time.

“I am surprised there is also a very impressive turnout. Everybody seems to be going about voting in an orderly, peaceful way.”

The governor expressed optimism that the minor hiccups noted at the Polling Unit due to inability of the BVAS to capture and register facial image, would be resolved, as the electoral empire has put all machinery in place to ensure a successful election.

“There are issues here and there where they say maybe because of the weather, the BVAS machine takes a bit of time in capturing facial recognition images and registering it.

“But I believe between thumb printing and facial recognition, somewhere, they are managing along .

“So far, everything looks so good and I want to thank INEC for being on top of their game as usual, obviously, year in year out, they are improving on the quality of the services they are rendering.

“For now, everything appears to be going on well. You can see there is peace here, there is no rancour and there is no fighting,” he added.

The by-election came about, following the death of Hon. Adewunmi Onanuga early this year.

The governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, cast his vote at his Ita-Osanyin Ward 3, Unit 02, Ikenne Local Government during the by-election.