5th August, 2023
By Kazeem Ugbodaga
An aide to Senator Solomon Adeola, representing Ogun West in the Senate, Adeniyi Sanni has reportedly been shot dead in Lagos.
Kayode Odunaro, spokesperson for Adeola, in a statement, said the incident happened on Saturday morning.
He said information available to the bereaved Senator in Abuja indicated that Sanni was stopped at a checkpoint around Berger Area of Lagos on his way to his home at Isheri by security agents.
Odunaro stated, in the statement obtained by The Punch, that he was asked to provide the documents of the car he was driving, which he did through his wife who sent all the documents to his phone WhatsApp.
According to him, it was gathered that the wife called a while later and that the late Sanni told him they were still checking the vehicle’s papers.
Odunaro added that his apprehensive wife later called on Sanni’s associates to say he could no longer reach her husband on phone necessitating the mobilisation of a search party.
He said she was later called by passers-by through the next of kin phone number on her husband’s driving license that the body of Sanni was dumped around Toyota Bus Stop in Oshodi with gunshot wound.
Odunaro stated that Adeola, who was involved in the ongoing ministerial screening at the Senate, was shocked beyond words and devastated by the news of this sad incident, as Sanni was his close aide for over two decades.
He said the Nigeria Police Force was investigating the killing.