My husband’s killers are within the party ─ Slain APC chief’s wife

Firstclass newsline learnt that the wife of the Assistant Treasurer of
the All Progressives Congress in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government
Area of Lagos State, Mrs. Eri Daramola, says those who killed her
husband, are within his political circle.
She urged the police and the state government to ensure that the
killers were fished out and punished.
Some gunmen on a motorcycle had on Thursday shot the APC chief,
Omoshalewa Daramola, on K Close, 3rd Avenue, FESTAC Town, at about
1pm, where he and some party members had gathered to share gifts for
the Sallah celebration.
The assailants, who shot the deceased in the chest and back, reportedly escaped.
Omoshalewa, who was rushed to a nearby hospital, reportedly died on the way.
Firstclass newsline learnt that the matter, which was reported to the
FESTAC Police Division, had been transferred to the State Department
of Criminal Investigation for further investigation.
When a source visited the Daramolas on Saturday, the wife, Eri, said
the manner of her husband's death showed that there was an insider's
connivance in the act.
She added that she was informed of his death while attending their
son's convocation in Osun State.
She said, "I had travelled to Abuja to sort out some issues on
Wednesday. On Thursday morning, I called him that I was going to Osun
State because our first son was graduating on the same day. He said it
was fine.
"After the convocation, I was on my way to Lagos when someone called
me and said, 'Mrs. Daramola, where are you? Your husband is dead.' I
said how? This is a wrong number. I am not the only Mrs. Daramola in
FESTAC. Then, I cut her off.
"Later, she called again, and said they were taking him to a mortuary,
and that I should send my husband's parents' phone numbers. I told her
it could not be my husband. It was when I got home that my children
said, 'Mummy, they have killed daddy.'
"That was the beginning of my sorrow. I learnt that he did not get
help on time. Daramola was a very strong man. I suspect that the
players in this matter are within his circle. Even among the APC
executive members, there is division. They said he was a loyalist of a
former LGA chairman. They warned him not to follow the former
chairman."
Eri, who had been married to the late APC executive for about 20
years, urged the police to bring the faces of the killers to the open.
She said, "I want to see those who killed my husband. These things
have been happening in Nigeria, and nothing gets done. But, I want the
police to do everything necessary to fish out my husband's killers. My
children are very young. Where do I start from? Who will take care of
the children?"
The source observed the crowd of sympathisers who thronged the APC
executive's residence and expressed their grief. Our correspondent
learnt that the deceased's corpse had not been released by the police
to the family for burial.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu,
said the police had arrested two principal suspects in the incident,
adding that further investigations were ongoing.
He said, "Two persons have been arrested. The case is now with the SDCI."
Firstclassnewsline.net