PRESS STATEMENT
She died peacefully in her sleep early this morning. Mama was 90 years.
She is survived by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other family members.
Further announcements will be made by the family in due course.
Signed:
Richard Olatunde
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Ondo State.
My sọn was murdered, he did not commit suicide – bereaved mother cries out
Mother ot the 19yr old student of Ipetu-Ijesa Polytechnic, Tomiwa who was found dead at the backyard of his mother’s rented apartment with a NITEL cable around his neck says her son did not commit suicide, but murdered.
On her Facebook Timeline, Elemese Olubunmi said her son’s purported suicide was stage managed, calling on security agencies to dig beyond the surface to unravel circumstance surrounding his death
“With heavy heart and extreme pains I am writing this , to set the record straight and to also cry to Nigerians to come to my aid , especially Nigerian Police. How will Tomiwa commit suicide, I have been raising the 2 of them alone since when he was 5years old, and I decided not to get marry again, so I can take care of them properly , I am not a lazy woman, I work every day , ply ibadan to ilesa many times in a week as a trader and God has been helping me to provide for their needs “. She narrated.
According to Olubunmi, Tomiwa
was a brilliant and easy going boy, who did not love keeping friends.
” He likes indoor browsing more than keeping friends . He was not lacking in schools. He was not hungry .
I sent pocket money to him a day to his death. And he told me that he wanted to come home and pick his laptop computer preparatory to his exams which is scheduled to commence on 22 of September,
but I was in a 3-day program, so I told him to come on Saturday, so I can have time for him,we both agreed that when i gets to Ikire, he too will leave ipetu around 2pm, so we will meet at the same time in Ilesa,, But to my surprise , he got home before me “.
She said Tomiwa did not lack anything on campus as her elder sister with whom he often spent his holidays always supported him financially.
” my elder sister pays for him with ease, he spends most of his holiday with her in Ondo. My Dad also gives him whatever he needs, so also my other siblings, why will he commit suicide?”
The bereaved mother also wrote that his murdered son neither dropped any suicide note, nor gave any warning or sent distress messages.
” He has not even entered the apartment. He had the spare key, why would he hang outside our room and leave his bags and shoes outside ?
If he has any reasons to commit suicide, why didn’t he do it in school?
There are lots of trees around his school and Hostel that he could have used . He was on kneeling position, begging the killer with tears rolling down his cheeks, mouth foaming,
the throat was strangled and was not dangling “.
” No table , No suspender.
Why would he choose backyard window when we have fans and table he could use inside ? How can Nitel rope kill someone ?
The distance of the window to the floor is not enough to hang him with his height. They now tied roap on window and around his neck as if he committed suicide”
She wants to know who wiped all the call logs, and sms messages on his phone.
“He came home by himself joyfully, greeted everyone usually like he used to do. We lives in house where more than 20 people comes daily, it’s amazing how he was killed with no one knowledge. Even if he commits suicide , he must have cried and screamed at the last point of his death, so painful no one came to his rescue. Could it be he was trailed from school ? If yes, how did they escaped in such environment.
He never complained about his school to me, except for the time he insisted he wanted to live alone, I rushed down to his school and spent time to get him his personal accommodation, and at point of making payment he told me not to worry about again as he decided to squat with his friends”.
She called Nigerians to ensure justice for her so who she said had no reasons whatsoever to commit suicide. .
It will be recalled that an undergraduate of Ipetu-Ijesa Polytechnic, was found in a kneeling position with a cable round his neck in a compound at Isokun area of Ilesa, Osun State last weekend.
Meanwhile, The Police Command in Osun on Sunday said a 19-year-old student of Ipetu-Ijesa College of Technology, Olonade Tomiwa, committed suicide in Ilesa.
This is contained in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Yemisi Opalola, in Osogbo.
Opalola said the deceased was found hanging dead in the compound with a telephone cable.
She said that the case was reported at Ilesa ‘A’ Division, by one Agboola Olusola, a youth leader in the town.
The command spokesperson said no mark of violence was found on the body of the deceased when the police visited the scene of the incident.
Opalola said the police took photographs of the scene and the corpse deposited at Wesley Guild Hospital mortuary in Ilesa.
She said investigation had commenced into the matter.
Source: Facebook@Elemese Olubunmi
According to a statement issued in Osogbo by the State Caretaker Chairman of the party, Dr. Akindele Adekunle, the PDP said credible reports at its disposal reveal that the arson attack is to target the strong room where the machines were kept at the Osogbo office of the electoral commission.
“PDP urge the management of INEC to strengthen security protection for the state INEC office, “This threats should not be taken lightly especially after the open declaration of insurgency on the state by Mr Famodun”, the statement warned.
The APC, Dr. Akindele posited, is desperate to get rid of any likelihood of admissibility of the BVAS Machines during ongoing hearing of the governorship petition at Osogbo, hence the alleged plot said to have reached advanced stage.
The statement further provided insight into the petition of the APC to relocate the Tribunal sitting to Abuja, noting that “the ruling party is scared of the expected ease of verification and consequent invalidation of its claim of over-voting if the Tribunal sittings continue in Osogbo.
The PDP asserts that the BVAS Machines remain the most credible tools for result verification. Due to their huge numbers and sensitivity of their content, moving them around especially to Abuja poses serious risk of compromise. Bringing them to the Tribunal at Osogbo is the best route to facilitating speedy, just and fair hearing of the petition before the Justice Kume led Tribunal.
While reaffirming his party’s opposition to relocation of the Tribunal to Abuja, the PDP Chairman stated that the ruling party is searching for evidence to convince the Court of Appeal to approve the relocation, hence the false security reports issued from the defeated imagination of Mr. Famodun.
REJOINDER:
In a swift response, the APC claims that the PDP’s claim that the party intends to set fire to the INEC State Headquarters with the goal of destroying the BVAS voting machines used in the state’s July 16, 2022 governorship election is untrue, laughable, gibberish, balderdash, and jabberwocky that is only befitting of a composition from an idle hand.
Kola Olabisi, the media adviser of the Osun State APC chairman, in a statement said the charge further supports the idea that not everyone who attends school is qualified to be considered educated.
“How on earth could someone who calls himself the state party caretaker chairman of a party be spreading such fallacies for reasons which could not be far from having an ulterior motive” the statement asks.
It states that contrary to the claims of the State PDP caretaker chairman INEC operates a central server in its national headquarters where the details of the governorship election are being safely kept.
‘The PDP chairman has to be further informed that no amount of crimes against any members of any state INEC office can skew the results of the governorship election”, the statement further reads
If notes Ondo State-born Osun State caretaker committee state chairman of the PDP who does not have a stake in the state should be mindful of false information coming from his cooking pot, stressing that the claim that the Osun APC is pushing for the governorship election tribunal to be moved to Abuja is merely a fabrication of the rumour monger.
The statement also clarifies that INEC, not the APC, is responsible for moving the tribunal, assuring that the party’s faith in the legal system is unwavering come rain or sun.
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Eyewitnesses account reveals that the, the motorcyclist whose identity is yet unknown as at the time of filing this report was at top speed when he lost control of the bike and plunged into the river while his passengers, a woman and her child fell by the culvert with the motorcycle.
” the woman told us that he warned the motorcyclist to beware of the cracks in the bridge but the warning fell on his deaf hear until he paid for his action with his dear life and almost ended theirs as a result of his stiff-neckedness.” the eyewitness said.
According to the report the passengers who sustained various degrees of injuries and the motorcycle were rescued by some passers-by, but the rider was not that lucky as effort to get him out of the river alive since Friday failed.
It was gathered that the unregistered bike was taken to the palace of the Ajaregbe who took it to Ibokun Police Divisional Headquarters for safety
The DPO, CSP Olusegun Atanda confirmed the incident saying the his men are on top of the situation.
It will be recalled that the residents last month attributed the bridge defect to the unwholesome mining activities in the area, urging the state government to expedite action on its repair to avert avoidable death.
Meanwhile, the Olomu of Ijaregbe, ọba Edward Adetimo has pleaded with the state and federal governments as well as the relevant agencies to come to the rescue of his community which he said had been cut off from the mainstream.
Oba Adetimo hinted that representatives of the National Emergency Management Agency sometimes was at the scene of the incident last month for an on the spot assessment of the degree of damage
Oba Adetimo expressed concern that many more people may fall victims of the negligence if something drastic is not done was a matter of urgency to forestall more tragedies at the spot.
“The NEMA people have come to look at the bridge, but nothing has been done since then we have also called attention of the local government to the imminent danger and we are waiting for a response from local authorities “, he said
The traditional ruler regretted the negative impact of of the development on the social and economic activities of his people majority of whom are agrarians.
Oba Adetimo said social life of the people has almost been reduced to zero as the youth now link other towns and villages in the area, residents have to pass through Ìjẹ̀bú-Jẹ̀ṣà – Ilesa road, Ìjẹ̀bú-Jẹ̀ṣà – Ere – Ibokun tó get to Osogbo ‘ he lamented
By Haastrup
