BREAKING: Popular Nigerian Politician Assassinated

Popular Nigerian Politician Has Been Assassinated.

Report reaching OnyxNews Nigeria has it that the Special Assistant to Delta State Governor on Youth Development, Comrade Okiemute Sowho popularly known as Daddy K, has been assassinated in Sapele.

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The report stated that he was shot at a close range hours ago by unknown gunmen along Crudas road by Akintola Road, Sapele, Delta State.

OnyxNews Nigeria gathered that the assassins are said to have driven in a white Venza car and shot him at a close range before zooming off.

According to sources, the Daddy K had gone to check on a building he was said to be putting together in the vicinity when the assassins surfaced and opened fire on him.

A source who prefers to be anonymous and claimed to have seen the assailants said: “They came in a white Venza and shot him at close range before speeding off”

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Sympathisers were said to have taken him to a private hospital in the area where the doctors confirmed him dead on arrival before his remains were deposited in the mortuary.

Daddy K was a former Councillorship aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ward 3 in Sapele Local Government Area

His Refuel Okowa project, which was set up in 2019, an initiative aimed at fueling 100 tricycles and 100 motorcycles monthly aimed at encouraging the people of Sapele, where he resides, were his little ways of promoting the Governor’s prosperity agenda was popular among people of Delta.

Sowho was appointed the Special Assistant to the Governor on youth development last year, a position he held until his death.