Breaking: Ogun INEC REC slumps, dies

The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Ogun State, Barrister ‘Niyi Ijalaye is dead.

The Ogun REC slumped and died in Abuja on Monday evening after a meeting of RECs at the Commission’s headquarters. A source at the Ogun State INEC who spoke on condition of anonymity revealed that Barrister Ijalaye had returned to his hotel room after the meeting before the incident happened.

The Source further revealed that the Ondo-born administrator who was lively throughout the Commission’s meeting re, tired to Bon Octagon 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.

Barrister Ijalaye who was dressed in a bluer blue-striped tan with a red cap, was seeing one of the pictures posted by the Commission on its timeline during the meeting.

Barrister Ijalaye was posted to Ogun State in March 2022 following the transfer of Olusegun Agbaje to Lagos State.

Niyi Ijalaye, an Indigene of Ondo State was said to have participated actively during the meeting and was in good spirit before the death later in the evening.

Efforts to reach his Principal Administrative Officer and other top officers of the commission in the state were unsuccessful at the time of filing this report.