A member of All Progressives Congress
(APC) in ward 9 Ilesa East, Osun state,
Tolu Adeosun, was shot to death
yesterday, 25 July, right in front of his
house around Osun Ankara, in Ilesha.
Members of PDP and APC resorted to
violence when a group of the PDP
members reportedly embarked on
destruction of Aregbesola’s bill boards
and posters as they were conducting a
door-to-door campaign in the area.
The incident occurred not long after the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
gubernatorial candidate, Sen. Iyiola
Omisore, moved his campaign train to
Ilesa.

Prior to Omisore’s arrival, residents of
the area said that his gang of miscreants
and hoodlums, known as “IBK Boys”
were moving around brandishing
cutlasses and shooting sporadically.
They claimed that it was one of the stray
bullets that allegedly hit Adeosun in the
abdomen and he subsequently bled to
death on the street. Only a day before
his untimely death, Late Adeosun held a
naming ceremony for his new born
baby.

Immediately after discovering that Tolu
had been hit by the bullet and died, the
hoodlums were said to have quickly
escaped from the area through the Osun
Ankara Road and Express Road before
the arrival of the policemen from Ayeso
Police Station.

Meanwhile, Residents of Ilesa also allege
that the “IBK Boys” have promised to
continue to attack the supporters of the
incumbent governor, as it is the
hometown of the Governor, Ogbeni Rauf
Aregbesola.

The Osun State Police Command’s
spokesperson, Mrs. Folasade Odoro,
confirmed there was a clash in Ilesa.
She said the police had commenced an
investigation into the matter.