{"id":30434,"date":"2019-03-09T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=30434"},"modified":"2019-03-09T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:13:10","slug":"house-of-reps-member-shot-dead-in-ibadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/house-of-reps-member-shot-dead-in-ibadan\/","title":{"rendered":"House Of Reps Member Shot Dead In Ibadan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"theme-header\" class=\"theme-header\">\n<nav id=\"main-nav\" class=\"fixed-enabled fixed-nav\">\n<div class=\"main-menu\">The lawmaker representing Lagelu\/Akinyele Federal Constituency of Oyo State in the House of Representatives, Olatoye Sugar, has been shot dead, according to reports.<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"main-menu\"><\/div>\n<div>A source told National Wire that although the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan has not confirmed the lawmaker&#8217;s death, it has revealed to some of its worker Sugar has actually died.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;They&#8217;re yet to put him in the mortuary, preferring to tell people that he is still in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but some of us have confirmed that he has actually died,&#8221; said the source who was away on elections duty at the time of report.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<header id=\"theme-header\" class=\"theme-header\">\n<nav id=\"main-nav\" class=\"fixed-enabled fixed-nav\">\n<div class=\"main-menu\">Suspected political thugs were said to have engaged in violent clashes in parts of Ibadan, the state capital, when Sugar was attacked.<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"main-content\" class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<article class=\"post-listing post-4597 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-breaking-news-latest-news category-politics category-slider\">\n<div class=\"post-inner\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Sugar, who was also the Oyo Central Senatorial District candidate of the Action Democratic Party in the National Assembly election, was attacked on his way from his village where he had gone to vote.<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly hit in the eye and was rushed to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, where he died.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Reports say the area most affected by the violence is the Lalupon Iyana church axis of the State capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmaker representing Lagelu\/Akinyele Federal Constituency of Oyo State in the House of Representatives, Olatoye Sugar, has been shot dead, according to reports. 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