Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen shot dead Adeleke Adeyinka, the All Progressives Congress (APC) councillorship candidate for Abeokuta South Local Government, on Saturday.
The incident occurred at about 2 p.m. in the Jide Jones area of Oke Ilewo, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
DAILY POST gathered that the assailants arrived in a tinted car, after which one of them stepped out, shot Adeyinka at close range, and then smashed his head until he died.
In a viral video observed by our correspondent, the victim was lying face up in a pool of his blood.
According to a source who pleaded anonymity, “The killing happened around 2 p.m., it took everybody by surprise. No one knows if it was a cultist attack or not. The people in the area are already locking their shops. Everywhere is tense now, it is so sad.”
The deceased, a former youth leader of Abeokuta South Local Government, was aspiring for the post of Councilor for Ward 15 in the forthcoming November 16 local government elections.
Adeyinka was said to be a transport union worker in the Panseke area of Abeokuta during his lifetime.
Meanwhile, the Ogun All Progressives Congress Youth Leaders’ Forum has condemned the killing.
The forum, in a statement obtained by DAILY POST and signed by the youth leader of Abeokuta South Local Government, Comrade Kabir Odedairo, and its PRO, Timothy Odedina, described the killing as senseless and horrific.
