A batch C Corps member who served as INEC adhoc staff during the Saturday governorship and House of Assembly election in Ondo State has been reported dead.
Okalanwon Ibrahim Olalekan, with NYSC registration number OD/18C/1199 was said to have met his untimely death raising from boat mishap on his way back to his place of abode from Arogbo Ward 2, Ese-Odo Local government of Ondo State where he was deployed for election duty.
A statement on Monday from the NYSC reads in part: "The National Youth Service Corps Scheme is diminished by the death of any Corps Member, and therefore feels utterly devastated by the untimely demise of Okalanwon Ibrahim Olalekan OD/18C/1199, who hailed from Ogun State. He died under very tragic circumstance, on Saturday, 9th March, 2019.
"Olalekan, a young man, burning with patriotic zest stood to be counted at the hour of national need by availing the Nation of his services as INEC ad-hoc staff, deployed to Arogbo Ward 2, Ese - Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, his state of Service, for the State House of Assembly Election."
Okalanwon Ibrahim Olalekan, with NYSC registration number OD/18C/1199 was said to have met his untimely death raising from boat mishap on his way back to his place of abode from Arogbo Ward 2, Ese-Odo Local government of Ondo State where he was deployed for election duty.
A statement on Monday from the NYSC reads in part: "The National Youth Service Corps Scheme is diminished by the death of any Corps Member, and therefore feels utterly devastated by the untimely demise of Okalanwon Ibrahim Olalekan OD/18C/1199, who hailed from Ogun State. He died under very tragic circumstance, on Saturday, 9th March, 2019.
"Olalekan, a young man, burning with patriotic zest stood to be counted at the hour of national need by availing the Nation of his services as INEC ad-hoc staff, deployed to Arogbo Ward 2, Ese - Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State, his state of Service, for the State House of Assembly Election."
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