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    Edo Politics Gets Bloody: How Oshiomole's Personal Secretary Was Brutally Murdered




    Six days after Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo State's convoy was attacked along Warrake-Auchi Road by a truck that curiously veered off its track and headed straight for the staff car, missing it by the whiskers killing three journalists, while others, including security details sustained various degrees of injuries, the Edo State Government is bereaved again.
    The people of Edo State woke up on the morning of Friday 5th May, 2012 to the sad news of the assassination of the Special Adviser on Special Duties and Principal Private Secretary to the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, 44.
    According to the Chief of Staff to the Governor of Edo State, Osarodion revealed that Oyerinde was assassinated by assassins, who broke into his fenced compound in Ugbor GRA, Benin City and shot him dead. The killers, who reportedly got into the house in a commando style, escaped before any alarm could be raised by Oyerinde's household and left him in a pool of his own blood.
    Alhaji Alli, a security guard to Comrade Olaitan confirmed to the police that his late boss was assassinated by four gunmen in cold blood.
    He said that he was tied and bundled to the ground, while one of them held him at gunpoint, while the remaining went for Olaitan. “They entered through the window and shot him (Olaitan) three times in the eyes, chest region and stomach,” the guard added.
    The Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, Tony Iyare also confirmed that Oyerinde was killed by four gunmen, who invaded his house at 1.am on the fateful day.
    He said; “Shortly after they stormed the compound, they bounded the security guard, while two of them, forced their way through the door and made straight to the bedroom.
    “On recognizing that it was Mr. Oyerinde's brother-in-law, who was actually sleeping on the bed, they immediately left him and went for the wife, Funke asking her to lead them to the husband who, unknown  to them, was sleeping in the living room.
    “On sighting him, they instantly fired four shots; one to the head, chest, abdomen and hip killing Oyerinde instantly. The gunmen later fled without taking anything from the house.”
    It would be recalled that the house of the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Louis Odion, was invaded by suspected hired killers few days ago. Odion was however said not to be at home on the auspicious day as he had been persuaded to sleep over in a fellow commissioner's residence after a late night meeting with the governor.
     The reports added that the hoodlums broke the security of the house of the commissioner and started requesting for him before his family members who were at home raised an alarm that attracted security operatives in the area, which caused the hoodlums to run away.
    Edo politics has been getting hot in recent times as a build up to the governorship election of the state, which comes up in July, 2012.
    Observers maintained that the battle is between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which used to be in power in the state and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which happens to be the incumbent party in the state. This has allegedly led to several political bickering, fights and killings until the latest onslaught that is apparently directed at the governor and other officials of the state government.
    Our investigation revealed that the governor has begun moves to tighten security around himself and his officials and the people of Edo State are apprehensive as nobody seems to be safe with the security threat in the state arising from the battle for the soul of the south-south state in the coming election.
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