Some suspected gunmen, Saturday afternoon, killed a councilorship candidate, Adeyinka Adeleke, within the Jide Jones segment of Abeokuta South Native Executive Segment of Ogun Circumstance.
The sufferer was once stated to be the All Progressives Congress Councillorship candidate for Abeokuta South Native Executive Ward 15 within the impending November 16 Native Executive elections.
PUNCH On-line collected that the assailants stormed the segment in a tinted automobile life capturing sporadically.
Our correspondent learnt from a supply aware of the incident that the gunmen attacked Adeleke, shot at him and left him within the lake of his blood.
A video of the incident which surfaced on-line confirmed the dead frame of Adeleke life sympathisers’ voices had been heard within the background wailing.
An nameless supply instructed our correspondent that the incident created palpable rigidity within the segment as citizens scampered for protection.
The supply stated, “Some gunmen killed the All Progressives Congress councilorship candidate for Ibara Ward 15, Adeyinka Adeleke, nowadays.
“The gunmen came in a tinted car, shot him, and hit him with stones till he died. There was tension in the area as people were scampering for safety.”
Any other supply, who sought anonymity, narrated that the assailants arrived in a tinted automobile from which one in all them stepped out, shot Adeyinka at near field and nearest smashed his head making sure that the sufferer was once useless.
A dead body was once stated to had been a shipping union assistant within the Panseke segment of Abeokuta all through his lifetime.
“The Killing happened around 2 pm, it took everybody by surprise… No one knows if it is a cultist attack or not. The people in the area are already locking their shops, everywhere is tensed up now, it is so sad,” the supply stated.
A senior police officer within the segment showed the incident to our correspondent life declaring that the public took the corpse away.
The police supply stated, “Yes, the incident happened. His family decided to take his body for burial.”
In the meantime, the Ogun Circumstance Police Community Family members Officer, Omolola Odutola, was once but to reply to messages despatched to her form as of the hour of submitting this document.