Family of late Oyo lawmaker who was killed by gunmen during the governorship and State House of Assembly elections last Saturday has countered the police who said the killing was not politically motivated.
Mr Olatoye, popularly known as sugar, was the House of Representatives member for Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency.
The police had on Tuesday arrested one person in connection to the killing, insisting that the killing was not connected with the elections.
However, brother of the deceased, Olajide Olatoye, on behalf of the family on Tuesday, told journalists in Ibadan that the lawmaker’s murder had
“With due respect, I think that incident has a political undertone at the time Sugar was killed. Did Sugar go to Oja’ba to buy yam? Or did he go to Bodija to buy beans?
“It was during election, and he was coming back from where he went to perform his civic responsibility as a good citizen of this country and as a federal legislator. His killing has much importance to his political murderers.
“I am debunking the statement with due respect, made by the police AIG that his killing was not politically motivated.
“I want to say categorically that Sugar was the breadwinner of this Olatoye family and they have taken him away. What is now our gain? If this incident is not curbed, they will still do it to (kill) other members of the family,” Olatoye said.
