Confusion and palpable fear enveloped Odo-Oro-Ekiti, in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti on Monday, as a mentally deranged person was said to have stabbed to death the traditional ruler of the community, Oba Gbadebo Ogunsakin.
Newsflash247 gathered that the traditional ruler was attacked after he finished the community council meeting trying to board his official car from his palace to his resident.
The driver of the traditional ruler’s raise alarm for help from the monarch shortly after the council’s meeting.
“According to Henry Olu said, On getting there we saw our traditional ruler in a pool of blood, as Kunle had stabbed him with a knife in the chest.
” We tried rushing him to the hospital, but Oba Ogunsakin gave up the ghost,” the source said.
The late Oba Ogunsakin ascended the throne of “Onise” of Odo-Oro-Ekiti in 1986.
Angry youths of the community took to the streets with some of them carrying dangerous weapons like sticks, cutlasses and broken bottles in search of the alleged culprit.
The youths mounted roadblocks and burn fires on major junctions that lead to the community.
It was gathered that the mad man took to his heels immediately after he committed the crime and his whereabouts still remained unknown as at the time of filling this report.
The chiefs of the community could not be reached for comment as they were said to be in an emergency meeting on the burial rite of the late Oba.
The market in Ikole-Ekiti was deserted as soon as the news broke out, as traders and their customers scampered for safety.
