Breaking: Ogun INEC Commissioner Niyi Ijalaye, slumps, dies after a meeting in Abuja

Breaking: Ogun INEC Commissioner, Niyi Ijalaye, slumps, dies after a meeting in Abuja

The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ogun State, Niyi Ijalaye, has died after a meeting at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.

The resident electoral commissioner had returned to his hotel room where the tragic incident occurred.

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The meeting, presided over by the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, centred on 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.

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

He was appointed as the Ogun State REC in March 2022, after the transfer of his predecessor, Olusegun Agbaje, to Lagos.

Breaking: Ogun INEC Commissioner, Niyi Ijalaye slumps, dies after a meeting in Abuja