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Breaking: Ondo Gov. Aiyedatiwa’s campaign coordinator assassinated

Confirming the incident, the spokesman for the state police command, ASP Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, said the state command had launched an investigation into the brutal killing.

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Alaba Excel Abbey, one of the campaign coordinators of Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State, who was also the Returning Officer for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ward 10 in the just-concluded primary of the governing party, has been assassinated.

Persecondnews gathered that the deceased, who served as a ward coordinator for the Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organization Foot Soldiers (LACO-SF), was killed at his home in Supare Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government Area.

A sibling of the deceased, Mr. Samuel Abbey, who confirmed the incident, revealed that the politician was shot at his home.

In a statement, the spokesperson for the campaign organisation, Kayode Fasua, a journalist, said the late Abbey was actively involved in the campaign activities of Aiyedatiwa until his death.

The Director-General of LACO-FS in Akoko Southwest Local Government, David Ajobiewe, described the killing of Abbey as a big tragedy.

Confirming the incident, the spokesman for the state police command, ASP Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, said the state command had launched an investigation into the brutal killing.

“The state command is aware of the incident (killing), but an investigation is ongoing to unravel all that happened,” she said.

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