A
serving lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Temitope Olatoye (a.k.a.
Sugar) died on Saturday evening at the Intensive Care Unit of the University
College Hospital, following bullet wounds he suffered in the head by suspected
political thugs in Lalupon area, in Ibadan less city, Oyo State.
He
was taken to the Accident and Emergency ward of the University College Hospital
by his supporters. The doctors on duty moments after moved him to the Intensive
Care Unit of the hospital.
The
UCH public relations officer, Mr. Toye Akinrinlola told The Punch that
the lawmaker was moved to the intensive care, where doctors were battling to
save his life.
He
eventually gave up the ghost around 7.45 pm.
A
close aide of the lawmaker (names withheld) had told one of Punch
correspondents that some suspected political thugs of a rival politician in the
constituency carried out the attack.
Olatoye,
who won the 2015 election as a candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
lost re-election two weeks ago on the platform of the Action Democratic Party
and vowed never to return to the APC, notwithstanding the overtures reportedly
made to him by a former Governor of the state, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, to
join him in aligning with the APC candidate, Adebayo Adelabu.
Before
his death, he was representing Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency.
Olatoye
had in 2011 won an election into the state House of Assembly on the
platform of the Accord Party before he later defected to the then Action
Congress of Nigeria.
He
was said to be coming from his village where he had gone to exercise his
franchise when the assailant ambushed him.
Two
hours earlier, a supporter of the Peoples Democratic Party, simply identified
as Mudasiru, was shot dead by a police officer in Ile Titun area of Ibadan
South-East local government.
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