The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has refuted the allegation by Jimoh Ibrahim that its official demanded for $1m bribe before his name could be inserted as the ‘authentic’ candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State. The electoral body in a statement by its National Commissioner in charge of Publicity, Mr. Adedeji Soyebi, in Abuja on Monday, said the Acting Director, Legal Services Mrs. Toyin Babalola never at any point asked for bribe as alleged by Ibrahim. Ibrahim, one of the claimants to the ticket of the PDP for the election, had claimed that Babalola asked for $1m bribe from him, before the order made by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, could be complied with by the commission. The Energy Oil boss also claimed that the Commission’s Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ondo State, Mr. Segun Agbaje of working against his candidature. Ibrahim also alleged that th...
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The Ogun State Police Command says it arrested over 40 robbery suspects in the state within one month. The suspects who specialised in snatching cars, trucks and motorcycles, were arrested in various towns and cities, including Ago Iwoye, Abeokuta, Ilaro, Ijebu Ode, Odogbolu, and Idi-Iroko. The state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, on Tuesday said the arrests were a result of the operational order given by the Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, that policemen must reduce crime on highways and in communities in the state. He said, “The command has so far arrested over 40 suspects within a month for this particular crime. “The command will continue to tackle it since the anti-crime strategies adopted by the command have paid off,” the PPRO stated, lamenting that car snatching was becoming a norm in the state, hence the clampdown.” Adejobi recalled that policemen in the Ota Police Division on Saturday arrested three suspec...
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