Samuel Kayode, the Vice Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos State, was shot and killed on Thursday.
Mr Samuel was assaulted by unidentified thugs while attending an APC rally in Lagos State’s Agboju neighborhood.
Residents and audiences at the demonstration hurriedly evacuated the hall after hearing a gunshot, according to sources.
The corpse was eventually discovered in a pool of blood inside the rally hall. The incident was confirmed by Jimoh Buhari, the spokeswoman for Lagos State NURTW chairman Musilu Akisanya ‘MC Oluomo.’
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“When the gunmen shot him dead, he was protecting a fellow politician, Wale Yusuf, from harassment,” he claimed.
The state police command in Lagos has yet to publish a statement on the incident.
