Ogun Senator’s Aide, Adeniyi Sanni Shot Dead In Lagos

Adeniyi Sanni, a long-time aide to Senator Solomon Adeola representing Ogun West, has been tragically killed in Lagos.

Kayode Odunaro, the media adviser to Adeola, who confirmed this in a statement, said Sanni was shot dead under questionable circumstances in the early hours of Saturday.

According to him, Sanni was stopped by security operatives at a checkpoint in the Berger area of Lagos, where security agents questioned him about his vehicle’s papers.

Odunaro said in response, Adeniyi Sanni contacted his wife and asked her to send the necessary documents via WhatsApp, after which he suddenly went incommunicado.

Sanni’s wife was later called by passersby who informed her that her husband’s body was found with a gunshot wound around the Toyota bus stop in the Oshodi area of Lagos.

The statement reads, “Information available to the bereaved senator in Abuja indicates that Mr Sanni was stopped at a checkpoint around Berger area of Lagos on his way to his home at Isheri by security agents.

“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 via WhatsApp

“It was gathered that the wife called a while later and the late Mr. Sanni told him they are still checking the vehicle’s papers.

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

“She was later called by passersby through the Next of Kin phone number on her husband’s driver’s license that the body of Mr. Sanni was dumped around Toyota Bus Stop in Oshodi with gunshot wound.

“Senator Adeola who is involved in the ongoing ministerial screening at the Senate is shocked beyond words and devastated by the news of this sad incident, as Mr. Sanni was his close aide for over two decades.

“The Nigeria Police Force are investigating the killing.”

Efforts to contact Benjamin Hundeyin, the Lagos police public relations officer, was not immediately successful.

KanyiDaily had also reported how Uganda’s State Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Col (rtd) Charles Okello Engola was shot dead by his bodyguard.