{"id":109161,"date":"2023-11-11T16:31:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=109161"},"modified":"2023-11-11T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T15:31:40","slug":"breaking-igalamela-lg-boss-apc-thugs-arrested-millions-of-naira-for-vote-buying-impounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-igalamela-lg-boss-apc-thugs-arrested-millions-of-naira-for-vote-buying-impounded\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Igalamela LG boss, APC thugs arrested, millions of naira for vote-buying impounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Soldiers on election duty in Igalamela local government area of Kogi state early Saturday morning intercepted and arrested the council administrator, Onoja a.k.a Imported Monkey, several supporters of All Progressives Party, APC just as they impounded huge sums of money running into millions of naira as well as large cache of ammunitions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe money packed in several Ghana-must-go bags and the ammunitions are now with the soldiers, who have also arrested them and the APC thugs \u00a0who were supposed to use the money and arms during the election as they were seen sitting on bare floor near the army checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>In a viral video both the council chairman and his gang were seen expressing regrets and pleading for forgiveness but the soldiers did not oblige.<\/p>\n<p>They reportedly confessed that the money was meant for distribution to voters at different polling units within the local government and Idah area during today\u2019s governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com learnt that there are moves by Governor Yahaya Bello and his officials to secure their release as sources said frantic efforts were being made to order the soldiers to bring the suspects to the state capital but the military authorities have insisted that the suspects be held with the recovered items until after the election today.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers on election duty in Igalamela local government area of Kogi state early Saturday morning intercepted and arrested the council administrator, Onoja a.k.a Imported Monkey, several supporters of All Progressives&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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