The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun State yesterday escaped the wrath of angry residents of Osun State who felt they were short changed by the commission in the just concluded governorship pools in the state.
According to a tweeter user, Demola Olarewaju who narrated what happened, he said;
The event was the burial ceremony of another INEC REC and former Rector of Osun State Polytechnic, Dr. Timothy Ibitoye at First Baptist Church, Oke-Owode in Ikirun.
Somebody had chosen Segun Agbaje to deliver a eulogy but as soon as Baba was announced, all hell broke loose.
The crowd in the church (congregation doesn’t seem appropriate in this case) immediately started singing songs reserved for thieves and robbers – and Segun Agbaje turned the podium (a pulpit cannot be defiled) into another Collation Centre as he tried to explain himself.
“We will make your life inconclusive today” was only one of the various threats issued against the man as the crowd began to surge forward and other INEC officers took to their heels, leaving the clergy to intervene before someone would be lynched in the House of God.
Agbaje of course tried to escape – but some long-handed fellows ensured his ears touched their palms before he could flee.
May this be a warning to INEC and those who conspire with them to truncate the will of the people:
Your connivance with APC is an evil that’ll be resisted.
Of course: my ideology is not in line with violence, maximum shishi on any public beating – but these are easily manufactured in a land where the people are tired but INEC decides to collaborate and impose a winner on them.
May we all be ever guided to do the right things always, He said
So, today in Osun:
Fate pushed the @inecnigeria Resident Electoral Commissioner of the massively rigged September 22/27 Osun elections, Segun Agbaje, to attend a Public event and the good people of that dear state ensured he got served – as e dey hot, right at a funeral service.
— Demola Olarewaju (@DemolaRewaju) November 2, 2018
In their reaction to the incident, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Osun State denied that the REC was attacked in the state.
In a Press Statement, the commission said that the REC was only booed and that the statement was immediately brought under control.
