Adebayo Rafiu and Muraian Latif
The Nigerian Police Force have arrested two agents of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, caught distributing money to voters to influence them to vote for the party/s candidate in the ongoing governorship poll in Osun State
The agents, identified as Adebayo Rafiu and Muraian Latif, were caught with a sack with the inscription: ‘Senator Isiaka Adeleke Free Rice’, in Iwo.
According to a post on the officialNPF Twitter handle, the bag contained N640,000.
The handle said: “Two (2) suspected vote buyers have been arrested by a team of police personnel on election duty at Iwo LGA of OSUN State and the sum of N604,000 recovered from their possession. Investigation is being intensified.
An update on the arrest said the men claimed they were given the money by their ward chairman, to buy votes.”
