The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Ogun State, is dead.
The Ogun REC, identified as Niyi Ijalaye, was said to have slumped and died in Abuja on Monday, after a meeting of RECs at the Commission’s headquarters.
The cause of his death is, however, unknown.
According to Channels Television, a source privy to the development revealed that the former Resident Electoral Commissioner had returned to his hotel room after the meeting before the incident happened.
The meeting, according to the remarks of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, which was posted on the verified timeline of the commission on Facebook, focused on the two off-cycle governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States, and seven vacant positions in the National and State Assemblies.
Ijalaye who was said to have worn a blue striped Kaftan with a red cap, was seen in one of the pictures posted by the commission on its timeline during the meeting.
The deceased was posted to Ogun State in March 2022, following the transfer of Olusegun Agbaje to Lagos.
