For Protecting His Politician Wife, See What Suspected Assassins Did To Nigerian Man, Mr. Owoseeni
On Thursday, at her Ijesa Isu home, in Ikole Local Government Area, Ekiti Sate, a former commissioner of the state, Funke Owoseeni, narrowly escaped attempted assassination. Unfortunately, her husband, Paul Owoseeni was not spared from the brunt of the evil men who wanted him to give them a clue on how to capture his wife.
The armed men, who allegedly besieged the former commissioner’s residence with dangerous weapons, descended on her husband when they could not locate their target.
The attackers dealt with Paul Owoseeni with machete and other dangerous weapons, chopping off five of his fingers in the process.
His wife, Funke, who also served as the caretaker chairman of Ikole council and at a time, the women leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the state told journalists that the assailants stormed her house at about 8.30pm and turned off their generating set, thereby subjecting the house to total blackout.
Narrating what happened, the politician said:
“When the light went off, we suspected that the generating set was still running outside and we asked those students living with us to go out and check what was happening. Few minutes later, we heard them saying please save us, save us and my husband who was not with torch light rushed out to see what was happening. The impression we first heard was a case of electrocution. While my husband rushed out to save the situation, I tried to get my torchlight to be able to see clearly. Shortly, the voices changed and I started hearing thief, thief, thief but my husband was already in their midst with those children. But because I went with torchlight, I was able to see them and I had to rush back inside and hid myself somewhere. They brought my husband inside and started asking ‘where is your wife? We are here for her and not you’. When he didn’t tell them where I was, they started macheting him with dangerous weapons and they did that until they chopped off his fingers and they fled when they saw that he had passed out.”
According to her narration, her husband was immediately taken to the General Hospital to stabilize him before he was referred to Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) for intensive medicare.