The Ogun State gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the April 2007 Polls has been assassinated near Covenant University in Otta Ogun State this evening around 9pm.


Details are still sketchy

AC gov candidate, Dipo Dina, shot dead

By Lekan Adetayo and Ademola Oni, Published: Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010

Action Congress governorship candidate in the 2007 elections in Ogun State, Otunba Dipo Dina, was late on Monday evening shot dead by yet unknown gunmen near Sango Ota.

Dina, according to security sources, was attacked while returning from Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, to his home in Lagos.

An aide of the politician told one of our correspondents on phone that Dina, who was locked in a fierce legal battle with the Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, over the outcome of the 2007 poll, died from the wounds he sustained in the gun attack.

“Dipo Dina is dead, his corpse is at the hospital in Ota,” the aide, who asked not to be named, said.

At 11.55pm, the Ogun State Police Command‘s spokesman, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said that he had called the area commander in charge of Ota several times but that his calls were not answered.

Adejobi said he had received calls from friends and associates of the politician seeking for confirmation of the incident. He, however, refused to comment further.

However, National Publicity Secretary of the AC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who spoke with one of our correspondents, said whether assassination or robbery, the latest killing had shown the level of insecurity in the country.

He said, “Given the political battles he has fought in the last two years, it makes all politicians feel unsafe. And going by the records of such killings, such killers are never found.”

Our correspondents also gathered that the assailants crossed his car, a sports utility vehicle, in front of the Convenant university and attempted to take him away but were resisted by the people around. It was in the process the attackers rained bullets on him.

A police source disclosed that Dina’s vehicle was driven away by the killers after the attack.

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What a waste of life.
And the assailants know they would never be caught hence politicians brazenly murder their opponents.

Terrible! I am not surprised. . .Nigeria is the devil's lair! Well, I will see who comes on here to say GOD should catch the killers. . .while I am sure GOD himself is waiting for Nigerian leadership to deal with this kind of situations themselves!

For as long as people pray stupid and ignorant prayers on Sundays and Fridays while not doing the right thing, for so long shall assassinations continue without any hope of catching and punishing the culprits!

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If this is true, then 2011 elections are around the corner. May his soul find the peace of God.