Osun State Police Command, yesterday, said it arrested a Corps member over Permanent Voter’s Cards theft and recovered 38 PVCs from the suspect.
It also disclosed that two members of the Peoples Democratic Party had been declared wanted over alleged voter’s cards scandal.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Yemisi Opalola, said the Corps member attached to INEC office in Atakumosa-West local government picked a voter’s card belonging to another person.
She added that police investigation revealed that the Corps member was instructed to pick the card on the instructions of two PDP members for monetary reward.
“On 30th June, 2022 at about 10:40am, the police got a report that a Corps member picked a voter’s card belonging to a resident on 29th June, 2022 at the INEC office in Osun.
“Further investigation revealed that the complainant demanded for voters’ register and discovered that the Corps member attached to INEC office as an Ad-Hoc staff in charge of Voter’s Card distribution had collected his PVC on the order of two members of People Democratic Party (PDP) for financial transaction”, the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the police said they were on the trail of the fleeing suspects. The suspects, according to them, will be charged to court after the completion of investigation.
Reacting, Osun PDP Caretaker Chairman, Dr Akindele Adekunle, said the arrest was part of a grand plan of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to use the police to indict the party members ahead of July governorship poll in the state.
Source vanguard news
