I was offered N500m to rig election, Ondo REC reveals

…says I refused to meet Jimoh Ibrahim in London

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

ABUJA – The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ondo State, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, Thursday, revealed how he was offered N500million to rig the last governorship election in Osun State in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

Agbaje who spoke at a dialogue session with a coalition of over 60 Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, led by the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, said he rejected the money which he said was brought in a van at night by certain chieftains of the PDP, among whom included the former Minister of State for Defence, Musliu Obanikoro.

The Ondo REC, who said he was a former Director of the Department of State Service, DSS, revealed that the money was offered to him at the IBB Golf Course in Abuja, after one of his former colleagues in the DSS, hoodwinked him into following him to the venue.

Narrating how his unnamed colleague “picked” him at the end of a conference he attended in Abuja and took him to the meeting where the bribe was allegedly offered, Agbaje, said he was shocked and immediately berated his friend.

“I told him that I was surprised he would do this kind of thing at that ungodly hour”.