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  • Senator Adeola’s aide murdered in Lagos

    Senator Adeola’s aide murdered in Lagos

    Adeniyi Sanni, one of the aides of  Solomon Adeola, the Senator representing Ogun West in the upper chamber of the National Assembly has been murdered in Lagos.

    Sanni was killed on Saturday while on his way to his residence in the Isheri area of the state.

    Senator Adeola’s spokeperson, Kayode Odunaro broke the devastating news on Saturday evening in Abuja,

    According to the statement, Sanni’s body was found with gunshot wounds at Toyota bus stop in the Oshodi area of Lagos State on Saturday morning.

    In the statement, Odunaro explained that Sanni had earlier called his wife to request the details of his vehicle papers when he was stopped at a checkpoint in the Berger area of the state by security operatives.

    “The wife became troubled when she could no longer reach him on the phone after she sent all the documents to his phone’s WhatsApp.

    “His apprehensive wife later called on Sanni’s associates to say she could no longer reach her husband on the phone necessitating the mobilizationE of a search party.

    “She was later called through the Next of Kin contact on her husband’s driving licence by passersby that the body of Sanni was dumped around Toyota Bus Stop in Oshodi with gunshot wounds.

    “Senator Adeola who is involved in the ongoing ministerial nominees screening at the Senate is devastated by the sad news, as Sanni was his close aide for over two decades.

    “The Nigeria Police Force is investigating the killing”, the statement stated.

  • Aggrieved Ogun politicians ask court to disqualify Senator Adeola

    Many aggrieved politicians have decided to sue Lagos West Senator, Olamilekan Adeola for crossing from Lagos to Ogun state to contest and win the ticket of   Ogun West Senatorial district under the auspices of the All Progressive congress (APC).

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Adeola won the APC Ogun West Senatorial ticket after he defeated the current senator representing the district, Senator Tolu Odebiyi at the party primary held in Ilaro on Saturday.

    Meanwhile the aggrieved politicians; Adebiyi Tajudeen, Olajumoke Ibrahim, and Muideen Akintade had on Friday, approached an Abeokuta division of the Federal High Court, obtaining an interlocutory injunction, restraining Adeola from parading himself as the candidate.

    They argued that Adeola contested an election in Ogun West Senatorial District without having stayed in Ogun State for the number of the times required by law.

    They also claimed that the Lagos senator was not from Ogun State and that he failed to resign as a senator representing Lagos West Senatorial district.

    They argued further that his emergence  as the APC Ogun West Senatorial district party flagbearer ,  is a deliberate marginalization and an infringement on the democratic rights of the people of Ogun West Senatorial district and of Ogun state in general.

    They further submitted that contesting without being a member of the party in Ogun West nor a registered voter in Ogun West Senatorial district is contrary to the Constitution of Nigeria and repugnant to natural justice, equity, and good conscience.

    The legal document noted the move by Adeola is “undemocratic, flirtatious, disenfranchising, illegal, abnormal, denigrating to the political reputation of the people of Ogun West and Nigeria at large”.

    They noted that declaring him a winner in a primary election is in “brazen violation and flagrant breach” of the right of the people of Ogun West to vote and be voted for.

    In the injunction filed on Friday, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent in Abeokuta on Monday, the aggrieved politicians urged the court to grant the prayers to restrain Adeola from further parading himself as the senatorial candidate of the APC in the state.

    The interlocutory injunction read partly, “an order of interlocutory injunction, restraining the first and second (Adeola and INEC) defendants whether by themselves, their agents, officers, officials, servants or privies, committees or however, called from taking a further step in allowing the first defendant to participate in the general electioneering process leading to the 2023 general from Ogun West Senatorial district or any other place in Ogun State pending the hearing and determination of the originating summon.”

    Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, also known by the alias Yayi (born August 10, 1969), is a Nigerian politician serving as the Senator from Lagos West.

    From 2011 to 2015, he was the Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts