Ekiti Decides: EFCC arrests PDP member, Damola Ojo for vote buying

Operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a Chieftain of the Peoples DemocraticParty, Mr Damola Ojo for inducing voters at Ola Oluwa Muslim Secondary School, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state during the governorship election.

Reports had it that the party chieftain was arrested with a large sum of money.

The party agent at the Polling Unit Babajide Adebayo confirmed that Ojo is a PDP member but denied that he was inducing voters.

Adebayo 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.”

EFCC were seen in large number in some polling units where some major parties were alleged to have engaged in vote buying

Vanguard gathered that a particular party offered as much as N10,000 to each electorate that voted for its candidate while other parties offered N5,000 and the other party N3,000.

The EFCC operatives declined ENT when approached before whisking the party chieftain to an unknown destination.

Chieftains of other party lamented vote buying at the polling units by the three major parties contesting in the election