House Of Reps Member Olatoye Sugar Shot In The Eye In Ibadan

Temitope Olatoye, a serving government official speaking to Lagelu/Akinyele administrative voting demographic of Oyo state in the National Assembly has been apparently shot dead in Ibadan.

Brief News accumulated that Olatoye, otherwise called "Sugar" in the political circle, was shot by speculated hooligans in Elesu town, Lalupon, Lagelu Local Government territory of the state.

It was found out that Olotoye was hurried to the Accident and Emergency Center of the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan where he apparently passed on.

A source in his town, who affirmed the news to SaharaReporters, said he was shot by people suspected to be hooligans.

"Mr. Olatoye Temitope, a.k.a., 'Sugar', has quite recently been shot at his town in Lagelu region of Oyo State, yet I can't state in the event that he was shot dead. He was shot in the eye by a portion of the hooligans who raged his territory and they have hurried him to UCH here in Ibadan," he said.

The legislator, who is an individual from the Action Democratic Party (ADP), had challenged in the February 23 National get together survey for the Oyo State senatorial area situate, however lost to Teslim Folarin of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Brief News couldn't affirm at press time the legitimacy of the report that he kicked the bucket after the episode.

Olugbenga Fadeyi, representative of the Oyo State Police Command, affirmed the news yet said he was yet to "get the certainties of the story".

"All things considered, I have not gotten the actualities yet, yet give me more opportunity to affirm and I will hit you up," he quickly told our correspondent via telephone.