BREAKING: Hon Olatoye Temitope known as Sugar ambushed and shot dead in the eye

Hon Temitope Olatoye, famously known as Sugar, who represents Lagelu/Akinleye constituency of Oyo State in the federal House of Representatives, was shot dead on Saturday, March 9, 2019 around 8:00pm. Hon Olatoye Temitope knowm as Sugar ambushed and shot dead in the eye while making the journey from his village after casting his vote in the governorship election and some political thugs ambushed him and killed him with a spray of bullets.

One bullet was lodged in his head from pointblank range, leaving him fatally wounded.


Pulse understands that Olatoye, who was gunned down in Elesu village, Lalupon, Lagelu, was immediately rushed to the Accident and Emergency ward of the University College Hospital in Ibadan by his supporters, before being moved to the Intensive Care Unit, where doctors battled to save his life.

At about 7:45pm of the same day, Olatoye was declared dead by doctors.
Who killed the lawmaker?

Punch reports that a close aide of the lawmaker had revealed that some suspected political thugs of a rival politician in the constituency, carried out the attack.

The politician's name wasn't given.

In 2011, Olatoye contested and won the election into the Oyo State House of Assembly on the platform of the Accord Party.
Olatoye was a serving lawmaker until his death (Punch)

He would later defect to the then Action Congress of Nigeria from Accord Party.

Olatoye was elected into the House of Representatives on the platform of the APC in 2015, but defected to the Action Democratic Party (ADP), the political party of former Oyo Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala.

He lost his re-election battle to the House on Feb 23, 2019, on the ADP platform.



He had vowed never to return to the APC.