We’ll resist cover- up – Family of late former SDP guber candidate, vows

— Lauds Aiyedatiwa’s swift intervention

By Dayo Johnson, Akure

Family of the precocious erstwhile governorship campaigner of the Social Democratic Party successful Ondo state, Otunba Bamidele Akingboye, has vowed to defy immoderate screen up successful unraveling the enigma down his death.

Recall that pursuing the mysterious decease of the politician, immoderate members of his contiguous family, person been quizzed.

The Akingboye/Betiku family, successful a connection jointly signed by Papa C. M. Betiku and Pastor Akinyemi Micheal Akingboye lauded the authorities governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, for his swift involution and steadfast assurance that the substance would not beryllium swept nether the carpet.

While describing the decease arsenic tragic and unpleasant, the household insisted that information and justness indispensable prevail.

They vowed that whoever was culpable would not flight some the wrath of God and the owed process of law, declaring that immoderate effort to conceal the information would beryllium fiercely resisted.

At a gathering held astatine the household location successful Okitipupa , they described the precocious Akingboye arsenic a antheral who roseate “from writer to grace,” gathering a beingness of enterprise, raising his children, and extending enactment to his family.

Details from the household showed that Akingboye was survived by 2 wives. His archetypal wife, Mrs Biola Akingboye, bore him 3 children, each joined and surviving abroad.

The eldest son, Samuel, an entrepreneur with businesses successful Nigeria, was said to beryllium the archetypal to rise suspicion astir his father’s abrupt death.

Samuel, who had seen his begetter live the erstwhile day, revealed they had agreed to conscionable for further discussions earlier calamity struck.

Dissatisfied with explanations from those contiguous successful the household, helium petitioned the authorities, prompting the ongoing constabulary probe.

The 2nd wife, Mrs Christianah Akingboye, has 5 children with the deceased.

She, 4 of her children, her siblings, and home unit numbering astir 13 radical were reportedly astatine location erstwhile the decease occurred.

Circumstances surrounding the incidental — with bruises allegedly recovered connected Akingboye’s look and arm, his apparel soaked successful blood, and his assemblage discovered connected the level of the backyard starring to the boys’ quarters — person triggered wide suspicion.

The household commended the Nigeria Police Force, peculiarly the Homicide Department astatine Panti, Yaba, Lagos, for the technological and carnal approaches deployed successful the investigation, but urged the officers to guarantee that nary chromatic was near unturned.

They said that “as a family, we stay unwavering successful our resoluteness to guarantee that the enigma down his abrupt passing is exposed and that justness is done successful honour of his memory, successful the involvement of the State, and for the involvement of posterity,” the connection read.

The mysterious decease of Akingboye, noted for his philanthropy has continued to make nationalist outrage.

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