Gunmen suspected to be cultists have reportedly killed a former councillor of Abeokuta North Local Government Area, Mutiu Akinbami.

Saturday Telegraph gathered that the Ex-Councillor was shot dead in the head while on a motorcycle with his son around Brewery in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The spokesperson for the Ogun State Police Command, SP Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident on Saturday in a statement made available to newsmen.

According to the report the incident happened at about 6.30 pm on Friday between the popular Brewery Bust Stop and Olomoore Junction.

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The Divisional Police Officer was said to have quickly mobilised patrol teams to the location and transported the victim to Ijaiye General Hospital, where a doctor confirmed him dead.

Odutola said, “The Divisional Police Officer of Lafenwa received a report at about 18:40houre that Mutiu Akinbami, a man from Olomore Housing Estate, had been shot near the Brewery

“According to the caller, the deceased was riding home on a motorcycle when he was shot from behind by one of the masked occupants of an unregistered white tinted glass Hilux.”