Police arrest 18 suspects over alleged electoral offences in Oyo vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, disclosed this on Wednesday in an interview with Newsmen in Ibadan.
Fadeyi said the offences committed by the suspects ranged from attempt to snatch ballot boxes and ballot papers to violence. He said that seven assorted guns and 30 live cartridges and other dangerous weapons were recovered from some of the suspects.He said that the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department at Iyaganku, was currently carrying out preliminary investigations on the suspects.
Fadeyi said that the suspects would be transferred to Abuja for further investigation after completion of initial checks at the state level.
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