{"id":6770,"date":"2017-12-27T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2017-12-27T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T19:06:01","slug":"controversial-ekiti-monarch-remanded-in-prison-for-alleged-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6770","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Ekiti Monarch remanded in prison for alleged murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>Jimoh Joseph<\/strong>, Ado-Ekiti<br \/>\nThe Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti, Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin, was on Wednesday remanded by an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court for alleged murder.<br \/>\nHe was arraigned, with others, in connection with violence which erupted shortly after Obasoyin inaugurated his hotel located in Gbemisola area of the<br \/>\ntown on Friday.<br \/>\nSuspected thugs had allegedly vandalized the hotel over a statement made by Obasoyin which they believed was against the interest of a Governorship aspirant who hails from the town.<br \/>\nThe supporters of Obasoyin\u2019s were said to have launched a reprisal attack on those identified as the perpetrators on Monday which claimed the life of one<br \/>\nKolade Adefemi.<br \/>\nOthers charged with the Olukere on an order to remand filed by the<br \/>\nCommissioner of Police were Ajewole Sunday, Adetowoju Bode, Kayode<br \/>\nMichael, Olowolafe Tola and Aluko Taiwo.<br \/>\nAccording to the remand order form marked MAD\/181fk\/17, the accused<br \/>\npersons were charged with conspiracy, attempted murder of Ayodele<br \/>\nOsanyinbola, and murder of Kolade Adefemi.<br \/>\nThe offences are punishable under Section (1) and 319 (1) of Criminal<br \/>\nCode Cap C16, Laws of Ekiti State 2012 within Ado-Ekiti Magisterial<br \/>\nDistrict on or about the 25th December, 2017.<br \/>\nDefence counsel, Mr. Ademola Adeyemi, urged the court to grant bail to<br \/>\nthe accused persons.<br \/>\nPolice prosecutor, Inspector Johnson Okunade, opposed the bail application and pleaded that the court granted the remand order<br \/>\nrequest.<br \/>\nChief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye refused the bail application and<br \/>\nordered the accused persons to be remanded in prison pending the<br \/>\nissuance of legal advice on the case.<br \/>\nAdegboye adjourned the case till 8th of January, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jimoh Joseph, Ado-Ekiti The Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti, Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin, was on Wednesday remanded by an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court for alleged murder. He was arraigned, with others, in connection with violence which erupted shortly after Obasoyin inaugurated his hotel located in Gbemisola area of the town on Friday. Suspected thugs had allegedly vandalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}