BREAKING NEWS: Gunmen attack Ogun LG boss, kill brother
By Emeka Madunagu
Published: Tuesday, 7 Apr 2009
Unknown gunmen have shot the Chairman of Ifo Local Government in Ogun State, Mr Sikirulai Ogundele a.k.a Iyeru, killing his younger brother, Mukaila Olatunji, in the process.


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Governor Gbenga Daniel

Postings on an online forum, naija politics, by some members indicated that both men were returning from a visit to their ailing mother in University College Hospital, Ibadan on Sunday night when they were attacked by the gangsters in front of the chairman‘s residence in the Ogun State capital, Abeokuta.

[b]Two shots fired at the council chairman were said to have failed to hurt him, which made the gunmen hit him on the head with the butt of a gun. The forumite said Ogundele immediately fell into a coma and was rushed to hospital while his younger brother, who was said to be on a visit from the United States, was killed.

The posting said the attack was politically-motivated and similar to an unsuccessful attempt by some gangsters to kill Mr. Wale Adedayo, a former aide of the state governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, in January this year.A forumite, who described himself as the cousin of both men, Dapo Ayoola, said in a posting that Mukaila was buried on Tuesday (today) while Ogundele was in good health and not in a hospital.In an emotional posting, on behalf of the Ogundele and Ayoola families, he wrote, ”While acknowledging that Sikirulai is currently a public figure, the family would wish that we be allowed to grieve appropriately. Tunji has just been buried and his biological parents are yet to be informed of his death. Let all parents on this forum, please, bear with us and leave us out of the political and administrative wrongs in Ogun State at this challenging and trying times.”

More details later.

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