Politicians from different parties in Oyo State on Tuesday besieged the state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ibadan calling for a thorough probe of the four suspects, including an INEC top official arrested with the Commission's Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines in a hotel room.

Similarly, Senator Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja's Campaign Organization of Accord Party fingered a staff in the Due Process office of the Oyo State Government as one of the culprits.

A press conference scheduled to be addressed at the INEC state headquarters at Agodi, Ibadan by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Ayo Adakeja, was hurriedly cancelled as newsmen were simply told that they would be invited at a later date. The planned press briefing was scheduled to inform journalists on the development on the issue.

The aggrieved politicians who had staged a peaceful protest at the INEC office were however disallowed from gaining entry into the complex by the gatemen who simply told them that they were acting on instruction.

But the politicians cried out that their mission to the INEC office was to verify the true position of things on the voters register as well as inquire from the REC on what was the effect of the latest discovery on the April polls. According to them, they also intended to know the fate of the suspects arrested in connection with the criminal act.

At a crowded press conference addressed by the Director General of Campaign Organization of Accord Party, Hon. Adeolu Adeleke, the party maintained that despite the hiccups, it still had confidence in the Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega.

Accord Party in Oyo State declared, however, that it was disappointed by the emotional pronouncement of the INEC Chairman when he said that the recovered DDC machine had nothing to do with the security of the election and at the same time telling the public that a panel has been set up on the matter.

While reiterating that the prime suspect in the crime was working closely in tandem with the State Governor's office, Adeleke posited that "only a fool would absolve the state government from the criminal act."

Hon. Adeleke declared: "We have it on good authority and we stand by it too that a staff in the Due Process department of the state