Ekiti attack: Tinubu’s aide, son-in-law ‘involved in attempt to kill me’ – Sowore alleges

Omoyele Sowore has accused President Tinubu’s aide on student engagement, Asefon Sunday Dayo, and FHA Managing Director Oyetunde Oladimeji Ojo of involvement in the October 30 attack on him and his team in Ado-Ekiti, allegations that have not been independently verified.

AAC presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has accused two Tinubu administration officials of involvement in the October 30 attack on him and his team in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, in a post on his X account on Monday evening.

Sowore named Asefon Sunday Dayo, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Student Engagement and a former National Association of Nigerian Students president, as one of the alleged ringleaders. He identified Asefon’s bodyguard, Ayodeji Akintade Ifeoluwa, as the man in a green polo shirt wielding a machete, and named Sola Adenijo, known as “Solar”, as a principal coordinator.

“We have also received information implicating ‘Hon’ Oyetunde Oladimeji Ojo, Managing Director of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Tinubu’s son-in-law and husband of Folashade Tinubu-Ojo. Our sources claim he mobilized Sola Adenijo aka ‘Solar’ for the operation,” Sowore wrote.

He alleged that Asefon was in Ekiti on October 29 for a City Boy Movement event, and that DSS operatives and Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s Chief Security Officer, CSP Ayodele Akinlua, alerted people connected to the gathering to his presence, after which a prolonged meeting was held to plan the attack.

The accused had not responded to the allegations at the time of filing this report.