By Adekunle Abiodun
Amidst vote-buying trailing the Ekiti State Governorship election. A member of the People’s Democratic Party, Damola Ojo was arrested in Ado -Ekiti by operatives of the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Ojo was whisked off at a polling unit inside Ola Oluwa Muslim Secondary School, Ado Ekiti, following a tip-off.
Ojo, whom the PDP agent at the polling unit, Babajide Adebayo, described as an Engineer was caught with a large sum of money. Our correspondent checks however revealed that before the arrival of the EFCC officials, there was voter inducement across the parties divide. Adebayo who confirmed Ojo’s arrest told journalists that he had since informed chieftains of the PDP about their intervention. He denied that Ojo was giving money to voters.
He said: “When EFCC people came, somebody pointed at Ojo, who was standing alone. There was nobody with him, he was not talking to anybody or giving money to anybody, he was arrested and whisked away. Ojo is an Engineer, he came to work in Ekiti but I have made calls to tell our leaders about the arrest.”
Across the state, party members still reached out to voters secretly not far from polling units where men of the anti-graft agency were sighted.
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