Dipo Dina assassinated
...Ogun AC guber candidate killed in Ota
...This is tragic - AC
Culled from the Daily Sun Newspaper of-+
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the 2007 governorship election in Ogun State, Dipo Dina, was last night shot dead in Ota by suspected assassins. Although details of the killing were still sketchy as at press time, Dina, an avowed opponent of Gov. Gbenga Daniel and one of the arrow heads of the opposition in the state, Dina was killed around Covenant University in Ota.

Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in the 2007 general elections, Otunba Dipo Dina is dead.
Dina was shot dead at about 9p.m. on Monday near Canaanland, Ota on the Sango-Ota/Idi-Iroko Road by gunmen suspected to be hired assassins.

Daily Sun gathered that Otunba Dina had attended a political rally in Sango Ota earlier in the day.

It was not immediately known where the AC candidate was headed to after the rally, but the killers were said to have blocked his car, and as he alighted, Dina was shot instantly.
The killers were said to have zoomed off towards Agbara in Dina’s car.

They dropped off the ex-governorship candidate’s driver at Agbara from where he found his way back to Sango to report the incident at the Sango Police Station.

Sympathisers rushed Dina to the Ota General Hospital, which is less than three kilometres to the scene.
Doctors at the hospital confirmed him dead. Sources said his corpse was still at the hospital as at press time.

When called on phone at about 1.00 a.m. this morning, Police Area Commander in Sango Ota, Mr. Adeola Oyelola confirmed the incident.

Mr. Oyeola also confirmed that Dina’s driver was with the police who had swung into action to unravel the mystery behind the killing.

Former Ogun State governor and AC chieftain, Chief Olusegun Osoba was too much in a shock to speak when called on phone, although he confirmed the dastardly act.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, expressed shock.
He described Dina’s death as tragic and a big loss, not to the AC alone, but to Ogun State and the nation.
While reserving further comments till the details of the gruesome murder would be revealed, Muhammed said, “it is sad, very sad.”

Otunba Dina contested the 2007 gubernatorial election and was beaten to the third position by the incumbent Governor Gbenga Daniel. Dina challenged the outcome of the election in court, but lost.
The AC gubernatorial candidate said in a recent interview that if there were credible electoral reforms, he would contest the gubernatorial election in 2011.