The Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Ogun State, Niyi Ijalaye, is dead.
It was gathered he slumped and died in Abuja on Monday after a meeting of RECs at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
A source at the Ogun State INEC headquarters, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed that Ijalaye had returned to his hotel room after the meeting before the incident happened.
The source further revealed that the Ondo State-born administrator, who was lively throughout the commission’s meeting, retired to a hotel in the Federal Capital Territory, where the incident happened.
The meeting, according to the remarks of the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, which was posted on the verified timeline of the Commission on Facebook, focused on two off-cycle governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States, and seven vacant positions in the National and State Assemblies.
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During the meeting, Ijalaye, dressed in blue striped kaftan with a red cap, was seen in one of the pictures posted by the Commission on its timeline.
Ijalaye, a lawyer, was posted to Ogun State in March 2022, following the transfer of Olusegun Agbaje to Lagos State.
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