By Onozure Dania

Lagos—Ikorodu was, Tuesday, thrown into pandemonium when a former councillor of Ikorodu North Ward E4 (names withheld) was allegedly caught with 70 fake All Progressives Congress, APC, voter’s card, during the party’s primaries in the area.

However, the councillor, who was handed over to the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Remi Adeshye of Ikorodu Police Station, Igbogbo Division and his team, was released before the election ended.

A politician, Mr. Nurudeen Yekinni, an aspirant for Lagos State House of Assembly, Ikorodu Constituency I, told Vanguard that he caught the suspect and handed him over to the police.

He expressed surprise that the suspect was released when he went back to the Police Station.

Yekinni said while he was interrogating the suspect at the scene of crime, he learned that an Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, official was also involved in the printing of the fake materials.

Meanwhile, the DPO said he only saw one fake voter card with suspect when the suspect was handed to him.

According to Yekinni, the suspect, in the presence of the DPO, said it was a highly-placed person in Ikorodu North Local Government Area that instructed him to illegally print the APC electoral materials.

Yekinni said when he got to the police station Tuesday evening, the DPO said he had released the suspect to a member of Neighbourhood Watch.

Accordinbg to Yekinni, the fake voters card saga made so many of the aspirants not to sign documents, as the incident did not go down well with them.

Meanwhile, Vanguard visited the Ikorodu Police Station, yesterday, but learned that the DPO was not around and efforts to reach him on the whereabouts of the suspect proved abortive.