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@PoliceNG Police Force, here is a video of how a 14-year old Ezekiel Olapade was killed in Ilobu yesterday. As this video clearly showed, the thug identified by the father of the victim is the one in blue short, shooting directly at people. That was an APC campaign vehicle pic.twitter.com/tzwQmYs7E6

— Engr Shakbab (@ShakirulliA) June 22, 2026

A 14-year-old boy, Ezekiel Olapade, has been shot dead by political thugs in Ilobu, Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State.

The incident, Star Potter gathered, occurred around 3pm when the suspected political thugs, led by one Saheed alias Tanfeani, opened fire at a palm wine shop belonging to the victim’s mother located opposite the local government secretariat.

In a video obtained by Star Potter, the victim’s father alleged that the attackers arrived in a branded vehicle of one of the gubernatorial candidates in the state.

“I was at my wife’s shop with my son and some customers when the thugs in an AMBO-branded vehicle came,” he said.

“Initially, they attempted to enter the council, but when they saw a man putting on a yellow cap at my wife’s shop, they directed their shot at the shop. The man wearing the yellow cap was shot, and he is now at the hospital.”

The father said everyone at the scene, including his wife and son, ran for safety.

“But my wife fell, and my son had to go back to rescue her. It was in that process that he was shot. I did not even know that he had been shot. I thought he ran away like others, and it was after searching for him for hours that I got a hint that he had died, and he was inside the bush,” he added.

He alleged that one of the attackers who shot his son was “Saheed Tanfeani” and that the assailants were about six in number.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of Osun police command, Abiodun Ojelabi, said the perpetrators were at large, adding that the police have launched a manhunt for them.

He said, “The incident happened this afternoon, adjacent Irepodun Local Government Secretariat.

“One Saheed, alias Tanfeani, came with other thugs and started shooting. In the process, the bullet hit Ezekiel Olapade, and he died at the spot,” the police statement said.

Police also confirmed that another person was hit by a bullet and is receiving treatment in the hospital, adding that the identity of the second victim is yet to be established.

“The suspected perpetrator of that act is still at large,” the police said, adding that a manhunt has been launched to arrest those involved.

Concern has continued to grow over the rising wave of political violence in Osun State following the tragic killing of 14-year-old Ezekiel Olapade in Ilobu, Irepodun Local Government Area.

The incident has sparked reactions from residents and concerned citizens, with many… pic.twitter.com/g6yoxltN92

— Star Potter (@Starpotternews) June 22, 2026

eepeepook:
They were known in the community and everyone tolerated their excesses. Now they’ve done the worst, people have revealed one name. Na so e be. Communities are the major reason why hoodlums flourish. If he was long arrested, such event would’ve not occurred. It is the same in the north, only that those ones play cat and mouse with the military.

PheelzAlmighty:
If I chat now, mods go ban me....

Apshit will happen to all of you

PheelzAlmighty:
If I chat now, mods go ban me....

Apshit will happen to all of you

Juliette5803:
In this critical period, please advise your wards to keep off political rallies......this election period is very spiritual...if you know.... you know

Amovingman:
wetin una wan tell me

Na igbo guy or woman go kill ham

Safyqueen:
But you people will always claim sophistication over the north that the Northerns are almajiri without education and of course behave as such.

So, what is happening? Where do they get the AKs. Maybe they rented it from Fulani herdsmen .

The worst part nobody asked or care about the religion of these guys but if it were to be in the North, one useless commentator would have mentioned Islam as if there are no indigenous Christians in the core north.

Double standards and hypocrisy.