The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun State, Niyi Ijalaye, is dead.
The REC was said to have slumped and d!ed on Monday evening August 19, in Abuja shortly after attending a meeting of RECs at the Commission’s headquarters.
According to a source who spoke with TVC news, the meeting, which was presided over by the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, was about the upcoming off-cycle governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States, as well as discussions on seven vacant positions in the National and State Assemblies.
Ijalaye, who hailed from Ondo State was said to have participated actively during the meeting and appeared to be in good spirits before the sad development in the evening.
