Abiodun mourns Ogun INEC REC, Niyi Ijalaye

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun State, Niyi Ijalaye, is dead. Ijalaye 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 office, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Ijalaye had returned to his hotel room after the meeting before the incident happened.

The meeting, chaired by INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, focused on upcoming off-cycle governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states and discussions on seven vacant positions in the National and State Assemblies.

Meanwhile, Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has commiserated with the family of the late Ijalaye. The governor, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Lekan Adeniran, also condoled with INEC for the loss, saying that Ijalaye’s death came to him as a rude shock.

Abiodun, who described the late REC as an honest, committed, and cerebral public servant with a high level of humility and patriotism, as well as an exemplary, uncompromising nature, prayed for the repose of his soul and the necessary fortitude for his immediate family, friends, and colleagues to bear the irreplaceable loss.