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 | | Subject: Oyo State police Investigate Adedibu’s Aide, Council Boss Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:56 pm | |
| Police Investigate Adedibu’s Aide, Council BossFrom Tunde Sanni in Ibadan, 12.29.2008
Oyo State police command yesterday said Alhaji Hazeem Gbolarunmi, close aide of the late Ibadan political strongman, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, and a council Chairman, Mr Demola Omotoso, were being investigated by the command over allegations of threat to lives.
Command Spokesperson, Olabisi Okuwobi, told THISDAY on the phone that the two politicians had inundated the command with complaints of death threats leveled against each other.
According to Okuwobi, the duo had lodged complaints with the police alleging threats to their lives, with each of them accusing the other of possessing guns.
This might not be unconnected with weekend’s alarm raised by Omotoso, alleging that Gbolarunmi was behind another round of a failed assassination attempt on his life on his way from Iseyin.
Omotoso, who is council chief, Ibadan North West Local Government, claimed that he escaped death by the whiskers, as suspected assassins trailed him from Iseyin, where a traditional chieftaincy title was conferred on the state Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala,
Eye-witnesses told THISDAY that the suspected killers had accosted the council chairman and his orderly at Moniya junction, armed with machetes, bottles and guns, and had planned to use their vehicles to block the Moniya end of Iseyin/Ijaye road, forcing his convoy to a stop.
However, Special Assistant to the council chief, Ademuyiwa Mustapha, was not all that lucky, as he was beaten by the athugs, before he was taken to police station. Mustapha, it was learnt, sustained a fractured leg and had been hospitalised at the University College Hospital (UCH).
Gbolarumi, who was deputy to Alao-Akala during his 11 months controversial tenure, denied knowledge of the plot on Omotoso, whom he described as his protégé, and accused him of an attempt at cheap publicity.
“He wants unnecessary publicity for himself, but I won’t join issues with him, because I made him whatever he is today. He is an ingrate and a traitor. What happened was just the expression of grievances of party’s loyalists to his non-performance. He has been embezzling the council fund with impunity," he said. | |
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