Adeniyi Sanni, an aide to Solomon Adeola, senator representing Ogun West, has been shot dead in Lagos.
Kayode Odunaro, the media adviser to Adeola, said Sanni was killed under questionable circumstances in the early hours of Saturday.
Odunaro said the deceased was stopped at a checkpoint in Lagos and was questioned about his vehicle’s papers.
He added that Sanni reached out to his wife to send the documents through Whatsapp, after which he suddenly went incommunicado.
“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,” Odunaro said in a statement.
“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.”
The statement added that Sanni’s wife was later called by passersby through the “next of kin” phone number available on her husband’s driver’s license and was told that Sanni’s body had been found with a gunshot wound around the Toyota bus stop in Oshodi.
“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,” Odunaro said.
“The Nigeria Police Force are investigating the killing.”
