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Police Confirm Arrest of Vote Buyers in Osun …720K Recovered

Agency Report/

The Police have confirmed the arrest of three suspects accused of vote-buying in today’s Osun governorship election.

The suspects were identified as Muriat Olalekan, Hamzat Muniru, and Adeagbo Wasiu.

The force spokesman, Mr Jimoh Moshood, said in Abuja that the suspects were allegedly arrested in the act of vote buying.

Moshood said that the arrest followed the deployment of operatives of IGP Monitoring Unit and the Intelligence Response Team of the Force.

The spokesman said that the sum of N720, 000 was recovered from the suspects.

He said an investigation into the cases was ongoing and the suspects would be arraigned on completion of the investigation.

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