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  • Osun decide: Police arrest four suspected thugs in Ife

    The Police have arrested four suspected thugs in Ife.

    They were found with wraps of Indian Hemp in their pockets.

    The four rode on a bike and the Police said they were suspected to be political thugs.

    They were caught around More in Ile-Ife, not too far from the Ooni’s Palace.

    A Chief Superintendent of Police Aliyu Shuaibu, who led a team of other officers, told our reporter that the suspects could not satisfactorily explain their mission.

    He said: “They were four on top of a bike, with tattoos. We suspected them and stopped them, knowing that they had a mission.

    Read Also; Osun Decides: Massive turnout in Ife

    “From their physical appearance and hairstyles, we suspected they were political thugs.

    “We checked their pockets only to see several wraps of Indian Hemp, indicating they were ready to go and smoke, then go and cause trouble. That’s why we took them in.”

  • Osun Decides: Massive turnout in Ife

    There is a massive turnout of voters in Ile-Ife, especially in Ife East and Ife Central Local Government Areas where our reporter monitored.

    As early as 7.30am, excited voters had gathered at the premises of the family home of Dr Iyiola Omisore, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in front of which Unit 3 in Okerewe Ward III is located.

    Omisore, however, will vote in another unit.

    Read Also: Victory is assured, says Adeleke

    At the Oranmiyan Tower Complex in Ife Central, there are 12 Polling Units under Ward 10, Akarabala.

    Voters were already on queue ready for accreditation and voting.

  • Victory is assured, says Adeleke

    After casting his vote, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke, has assured his supporters that, if he is not rigged out by the authorities in charge of the process, he is sure of victory.

    Adeleke who arrived exactly 8am at his polling unit 009, Ward 2, Abogunde/Sagba registration area, Ede North, was the first to vote at the unit.

    The Card Reader Machine had initially difficulties authenticating his fingerprints, but after about five minutes, he succeeded in doing his accreditation.

    The PDP flag bearer who voted at about 8.07am told reporters afterwards that so far everything was proceeding normally and that if it continues that way he is sure of victory.

    He said attempts were made to frustrate his bid, to destabilise him ahead of the election, but everything failed in the end.

    Buoyed by the support he is getting from his constituency in Ede, Senator Adeleke who surprisingly emerged winner of the Osun West senatorial by-election in July 2017 fancies himself as the next governor of Osun State.

    Adeleke became actively involved in partisan politics when he contested and won the by-election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  after the death of his elder brother, former Governor Isiaka Adeleke, then a serving senator, in April 2017.

    Read Also: Live Updates: Osun 2018 governorship election

    Ademola Adeleke had defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the PDP, when he suspected that the ruling APC in Osun State would deny him its ticket for the contest.

    He proved book makers wrong when he won the election which was conducted on July 23, 2017. Everyone had expected the APC to win the election.