Ondo Bye election: 4 arrested with guns
FOUR men have been arrested in Igbokoda area of Ondo state ahead of today’s Bye Election into the Ilaje Constituency 11in the House of Assembly with pump action guns.
Two of them have been ordered to be released by the state police Commissioner Mogaji Nasarawa following intervention by the Former governor of the state Dr Olusegun Agagu that they are his police orderlies.
Speaking with Vanguard in Akure, the commissioner of Police said that the two others are being interrogated by the police.
The four arrested persons were taking to Akure by the Police in Igbokoda before two of them were released on the order of the Commissioner while the other two would be transferred to Abuja after preliminary investigation.
It was gathered that two of those arrested had the weapons in the booth of the vehicles while others have it under their cloths.
But the state government in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Kolawole Olabisi described the arrest as a vindication that it was the Party who is using armed thugs to coerce the electorate in the build up to today’s bye_election in the area.
Olabisi said that with the arrest, the evil plot of the State PDP to rig election like they did in 2007 has been exposed.
Olabisi said that the Police arrested two men, one in Fake Security uniform and the other in mufti shortly after the rally, which was attended by top PDP top shots, in the boot of their car and were arrested and taken to the Force Headquarters in Akure preparatory to their being transferred to Abuja.
But the PDP in a swift reaction denied that those arrested were fake policemen but are that two of the four police orderlies attached to the former governor Dr Olusegun Agagu who accompanied him to the rally in Igbokoda.
Its Director of Publicity Ayo Fadaka said that the vehicle in which they were traveling with the governor had a fault and they were later accosted by policemen who instead of listening to them decided to take them to the Police Headquarters for questioning.
