Farm Manager Narrates How Fulani Gunmen Killed Oyo Ex-Rep Candidate In Wife’s Presence

A farm manager, Bolanle Olanrewaju, has narrated how suspected Fulani gunmen waylaid his boss, Dr Fatai Aborode and eventually killed him while returning from his farm.

Aborode was killed on Friday evening and was buried in Igangan on Saturday amidst tears from family members, workers and residents of the town.

The deceased , who contested election to the House of Representatives on the platform of the Accord Party in 2015 was said to have a very large farm in Igangan and was returning home when he was murdered.

The farm manager while narating how the incident happened said he and Aborode were riding the same motorcycle and suddenly, two gunmen jumped out of the bush and forced them to stop.

Olanrewaju added that his boss’s wife was being conveyed home on another motorcycle and they were also stopped by the gunmen.

Two other gunmen, he said, came out of the bush from their back and the four of them were sandwiched in-between the four gun-wielding criminals.

Olanrewaju said, “We were on the way from farm and on getting to the point of the incident, we were forced to stop.

“Two gunmen came out from the bush and forced us to stop. Two others blocked us at the back to ensure that we did not escape. Behind us was another motorcyclist with his wife ( Aborode’ wife) on board. They were also stopped and we were ordered to come down from the motorcycles. 

“They didn’t manhandle the rest of us apart from my boss. At first, we thought that they were kidnappers so he asked if they wanted money. They told him that they didn’t need his money. Meanwhile they took me about 500 meters away from where my boss was taken. The other man and his wife were inbetween where I was and where my boss was held down. 

“One of them kept watch on me while they were dealing with my boss. As he was being macheted, I heard the voice of the other man who was on the okada with his wife begging that they should not kill my boss but they did not listen. At a point, the man who held me down left me to join the others so I had the opportunity to run away. It took long for me to get to town. I  couldn’t make distress call as I was not with telephone set. 

“On getting back he had given up the ghost. We didn’t have any altercation with the Fulani around that day.”

Meanwhile, some of the farmers in Igangan have disagreed with the police that Aborode was killed by armed robbers.

The farmers said Fulani ( Bororo) gunmen killed him because they considered his large farm as an hinderance to their grazing business.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, had earlier said in a statement that the killing was a robbery case.