Reports have emerged that the body of Adeniyi Sanni, an aide to Ogun State Senator Solomon Adeola has been found riddled with bullets around Oshodi in Lagos.
The tragic incident was made known by Kayode Odunaro, the media advisor to Senator Adeola, via a statement released on Saturday, August 5.
The statement noted that Sanni died in very controversial circumstances on Saturday.
The statement confirmed that police officers stopped Sanni at a checkpoint requesting his particulars. Sanni, who was not with his particulars, called his wife to send it to his Whatsapp for him to present to the police officers. Sadly, by the time she called back minutes later, he did not respond.
The statement reads: “Information available to the bereaved Senator in Abuja indicates that Mr. Sanni was stopped at a checking point 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 WhatsApp.” It was later gathered that the lawmaker’s aide suddenly went incommunicado after constant communication with the wife.
His corpse is said to have been found with bullet wounds hours later. The statement reads: “It was gathered that the wife called a while later and the late Mr. Sanni told him they are still checking the vehicle’s paper.
“His apprehensive wife later called on Mr. Sanni’s associates to say he could no longer reach her husband on phone necessitating the mobilization 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. Meanwhile, Senator Adeola was said to have been busy with the ongoing ministerial screening when the tragic news broke.
Senator Adeola was reported to have been shocked after learning that his aide of over two decades had been murdered. The Lagos State Police Command is currently investigating the murder.