Police in Ogun have launched a manhunt for suspected cultists who killed a councillorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Adeleke Adeyinka, on Saturday.
Adeyinka, a contestant for the councillorship seat of ward 15 in Abeokuta South Local Government Area of the state in the November 16 LG elections, was in the early hours of Saturday shot dead by suspected cultists in the Jide Jones area of the Abeokuta metropolis.
The gunmen were said to have arrived in an unmarked vehicle, shot Adeyinka at close range and later smashed his head with stones till he died.
Forty-year-old Adeyinka was said to be a transport union worker in the Panseke area of Abeokuta, the state capital.
State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, who confirmed the incident on Saturday, said that the police had commenced an investigation into the killing.
The PPRO, who confirmed that the deceased was killed by suspected cultists, said his corpse had been released to his family.
She added that efforts were being made to arrest the fleeing suspects.
