Ahead of Saturday’s by-elections for Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke-ero Federal Constituency in Kwara State, a police helicopter was on Wednesday sighted hovering around Omu-Aran town, in Kwara South creating panic among residents.
According to eyewitness accounts, the police aircraft hovered for about 20 minutes before landing in one of the primary schools.
On landing, items carefully packaged in five (5) sacks were offloaded from the aircraft to some vehicles. Social media commentary on the developing story suggest that the items are INEC election materials and the receiving vehicles belong to Mr. Raheem Olawuyi aka Ajulopin – the House of Representatives candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming election.
Nigerian police helicopter landed in st Paul Primary school omu aran in Kwara South Senatorial District today. 5 Ghana must go bags loaded with cash was dropped and transported to Ajuloopin car Ajuloopin is APc Candidate for the upcoming by election #LetsGetNigeriaWorkingAgain pic.twitter.com/Iti5TJxvsd
— Adebayo Tunji Victor (@Victort1984) November 14, 2018
This police helicopter just landed in omu-aran Kwara state. Five Ghana must go full of money was moved from the helicopter to Ojuloopin’s car. The APC candidate for the forth by election. @IlorinInfo @Kwarayouthactio @Kwara247 @Kwaralefro pic.twitter.com/Wyqem4m71I
— Abdulrasheed (@BSalahu) November 14, 2018
Nigerian police helicopter just landed in st Paul’s Primary school Omu Aran in Kwara South Senatorial District just now.
5 Ghana must go bags loaded with cash was dropped and transported to Ajuloopin’s cars (Ajuloopin is @Kwara_APC‘s Candidate for the upcoming by election) pic.twitter.com/qyHoLRUzKU— I am Baba Idris (@babaidris090) November 14, 2018
Ahead of Saturday’s House of Reps bye-election for Irepodun-Isin-Oke-ero-Ekiti federal constituency, this police helicopter landed in st Paul’s Primary Sch Omu Aran, Kwara State, just now. pic.twitter.com/EWyvYH0HXa
— ıfý™ (@nnekei) November 14, 2018
However, in a swift rebuttal, INEC in a statement via its official Twitter handle on Wednesday night disclaimed the reports as untrue stating that all INEC sensitive materials are kept in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) vaults.
Breaking! pic.twitter.com/qRn8GgOuaP
— INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) November 14, 2018
This development is coming after Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, raised alarm over the influx of suspected political thugs into the state as the by-election approaches.
Governor Ahmed, who declared that the state is under siege, dropped the hint yesterday when he received Concerned Kwara South Youth at the Government House, Ilorin.
More to come…
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