Months after a prominent politician, Temitope Sugar, was killed in Ibadan, another top member of the All Progressives Congress have been mauled down.
He was Alhaji Babatunde Oreitan, who was shot by suspected assassins on Wednesday.
Reports said the man, who was one of the leaders of the party in Ona Ara Local Government, was murdered in his house located at Oremeji Agugu area of Ibadan after the Dhur prayer.
“The leader of APC in Ona Ara LG, Alhaji Babatunde Oreitan has been murdered. Alhaji Babatunde Oreitan was a principled politician, a devoted Muslim and a political leader. Those that killed you will never have peace. Rest in peace Baba Gbemisola, Baba Lateef,” feez Mobolaji, a youth leader in the party, said in a statement.
Sugar was killed during the last election but government has yet to identify the killers.
Such assassinations are not a rarity in Ibadan or among its politicians.
Apart from the fact that it was in Ibadan that the former Attorney General Bola Ige was assassinated, a women politician, Sulia Adedeji, sldo fell victim during the Abacha years.
