Two members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, including its chairman, Abayomi Tella, and two officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have been arrested in Iperu in possession of huge sums of cash allegedly meant for vote buying in the Remo Federal Constituency election.
The suspects, who were said to have been arrested in the early hours of Saturday, are 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 by-election.
The politicians and INEC officials, who were seen being questioned in a video clip posted on social media on Saturday, were said to have been nabbed at a hotel in Iperu-Remo, Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State.
In the viral video, the INEC officials, a male and a female, and the PDP officers are seen squatting and being interrogated by an unidentified male security personnel.
According to the interrogator, an intelligence report had indicated that the INEC officials had been contacted and given a large sum of money by the party officials for alleged vote buying during the by-election.
He disclosed that the arrest of the officials of the electoral body led to the eventual arrest of the PDP officers at a hotel in Iperu-Remo.
The male INEC officer told the interrogator that he was asked by his supervisor to go and collect the cash from the politicians.
Meanwhile, the state PDP Chairman, who introduced himself in the video as “PDP official in Ogun State”, was heard denying his involvement in vote-buying the alleged cash-for-vote incident.
“You are just showing money; I don’t know anything about it.”he said.
