THE WILL
Olakunle Oluomo, the embattled Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly has won his fourth term bid to represent Ifo Constituency 1 in the assembly despite his ongoing battle with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
A supplementary election was held at Oluomo’s polling unit in unit 4, ward 1, Ifo Constituency 1 on Saturday, a few weeks after the first election which took place in March was declared inconclusive as a result of over voting. He was declared winner after the returning Officer for Ifo Constituency 1, Prof. Richard Shobayo, revealed that he polled 7,546 votes to defeat his rival, Yusuf Ogundele of the Peoples Democratic Party who garnered 6,596 votes. This development is coming after EFCC arrested him and slammed an 11-count charge bothering on fraud and stealing on him.
Oluomo was said to have allegedly conspired with some members of the assembly, namely, Adeyemo Taiwo and Oladayo Samuel to spend the total sum of N2,475,000,000.00 for unlawful activities while allegedly forging receipts to cover up the alleged fraud.
The Speaker was arrested by the operatives of EFCC while he was at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and charged him to court in Abeokuta. He was granted bail in the sum of N300 million with two sureties in like sum…
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