Oluwatosin Onamade, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was killed by gunmen in the Ijede neighborhood of Ikorodu, Lagos State.
Onamade was shot and macheted to death on Saturday, March 8, 2025, while running for the chairperson of the Ijede Local Council Development.
Before the tragic day, the attackers had been pursuing the deceased, according to his brother Oluwafemi Onamade, who spoke to Punch.
Femi, who had previously escaped a similar attack with his brother, claimed that after the bullets fired by the gunmen’s firearms failed to pierce the victim’s body, they used a machete on him.
Around 9 p.m. on Saturday, it occurred. There were two shooters. They were completely unrecognizable because they were dressed in black. When he heard gunshots, his assistant claimed he was unable to wait. In front of his house, they macheted him and fired shots at him. It took place at Oluwatosin Onamade Street, his home in Ijede. He explained, “The street bears his name.
He was shot. He said, “They used machetes on his head and face when the bullets did not penetrate in time.”
He continued by saying that his brother had been attacked in 2021 but had survived.
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Some of the perpetrators of the 2021 attack are still behind bars, but a verdict has not yet been rendered.
When the attackers were unable to enter my compound that day, they proceeded to smash every campaign flag I had erected throughout the neighborhood. The large box flag I had put up there was maliciously smashed by them when they visited the party secretariat in Ijede LCDA,” he stated.
