OSOGBO, Nigeria — Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has ordered police to arrest those responsible for the killing of Olalekan Ajagungbade, an Accord Party figure popularly known as Emir. The governor also directed rival groups to leave the state's motor parks and said a Park Management System would be reintroduced.
What happened after Olalekan Ajagungbade was killed in Osun? Governor Ademola Adeleke ordered the police commissioner to pursue those responsible, told rival groups to vacate motor parks and announced the return of a Park Management System. Ajagungbade was killed during violence linked in initial reports to a park leadership dispute in Ile-Ife.
What happened in Ile-Ife
PUNCH reported that Ajagungbade was attacked during a meeting near Mayfair in Ile-Ife on Sunday afternoon. Initial accounts linked the violence to a dispute over control or leadership of a motor park. The exact sequence of the attack and the identity of the person who fired the fatal shot had not been established publicly at the reporting cutoff.
Ajagungbade was identified as a chieftain of the Accord Party and was widely known by the nickname Emir. A graphic video showing his body circulated online after the attack. XTRAfrica is not linking to or reproducing that footage because it adds no reliable evidence about responsibility and risks compounding harm to his family.
Early reporting also described clashes spreading beyond the original scene. PUNCH said police personnel took control of the Mayfair motor park, but the Osun State Police Command's spokesperson had not responded before the outlet filed its first report. That leaves operational details—such as arrests already made, recovered weapons or named suspects—unconfirmed.
Adeleke orders arrests and clears the parks
In an official statement, Adeleke directed the state commissioner of police to arrest everyone involved in the killing. He also ordered the groups involved in the motor-park dispute to leave the parks immediately and told security agencies to restore order.
The statement was signed by the governor's spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed. It called for calm and said there would be no protected offenders. The order is a demand for investigation and enforcement; it is not evidence that any named person has been found responsible.
The government's description said the killing arose from a park leadership tussle, but used cautious language. Politics Nigeria also reported the governor's response. Where secondary accounts use labels such as “gunmen” or “ally,” those descriptions should not substitute for findings from police investigators.
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Sep 14, 2026
Sep 14, 2026
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OSOGBO, Nigeria — Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has ordered police to arrest those responsible for the killing of Olalekan Ajagungbade, an Accord Party figure popularly known as Emir. The governor also directed rival groups to leave the state's motor parks and said a Park Management System would be reintroduced.
What happened after Olalekan Ajagungbade was killed in Osun? Governor Ademola Adeleke ordered the police commissioner to pursue those responsible, told rival groups to vacate motor parks and announced the return of a Park Management System. Ajagungbade was killed during violence linked in initial reports to a park leadership dispute in Ile-Ife.
What happened in Ile-Ife
PUNCH reported that Ajagungbade was attacked during a meeting near Mayfair in Ile-Ife on Sunday afternoon. Initial accounts linked the violence to a dispute over control or leadership of a motor park. The exact sequence of the attack and the identity of the person who fired the fatal shot had not been established publicly at the reporting cutoff.
Ajagungbade was identified as a chieftain of the Accord Party and was widely known by the nickname Emir. A graphic video showing his body circulated online after the attack. XTRAfrica is not linking to or reproducing that footage because it adds no reliable evidence about responsibility and risks compounding harm to his family.
Early reporting also described clashes spreading beyond the original scene. PUNCH said police personnel took control of the Mayfair motor park, but the Osun State Police Command's spokesperson had not responded before the outlet filed its first report. That leaves operational details—such as arrests already made, recovered weapons or named suspects—unconfirmed.
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Adeleke orders arrests and clears the parks
In an official statement, Adeleke directed the state commissioner of police to arrest everyone involved in the killing. He also ordered the groups involved in the motor-park dispute to leave the parks immediately and told security agencies to restore order.
The statement was signed by the governor's spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed. It called for calm and said there would be no protected offenders. The order is a demand for investigation and enforcement; it is not evidence that any named person has been found responsible.
The government's description said the killing arose from a park leadership tussle, but used cautious language. Politics Nigeria also reported the governor's response. Where secondary accounts use labels such as “gunmen” or “ally,” those descriptions should not substitute for findings from police investigators.
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What the Park Management System changes
Adeleke said Osun would reintroduce a Park Management System to oversee motor parks and garages. He promised an executive order to give the structure legal and administrative effect. At the cutoff, the governor had announced that order but the final text was not yet linked from the statement.
The policy response matters because control of transport hubs can involve ticketing, union authority, revenue collection and access to routes. Removing rival groups from parks is intended to stop an immediate cycle of retaliation; the management framework will determine who administers the sites afterward.
Readers should distinguish the immediate security directive from the promised executive order. Police can act on violence and public order now, while the longer-term governance structure still needs a published instrument, implementation rules and identifiable officials.
A politically charged setting
Ajagungbade's death comes during an already tense political period in Osun. XTRAfrica has covered Davido's alignment with Governor Adeleke in the Accord Party and the singer's earlier decision to pause music activities for Adeleke's campaign. Those political links do not establish a motive for Sunday's killing.
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Osun has also faced previous public claims of politically connected violence, including B-Red's account of an attack and pursuit in Osogbo. Each incident requires its own evidence. Reusing partisan narratives across unrelated cases would obscure rather than clarify what investigators know.
What happens next
The next reliable milestones are a police statement confirming arrests, the identification of suspects through lawful procedures, and publication of the promised executive order. Investigators also need to establish who fired the shot, whether other people were injured and how the violence spread.
Until those facts are released, reports should state that Ajagungbade was killed during reported motor-park violence and that the governor ordered arrests. They should not assign criminal responsibility to a rival group, political party or individual on the basis of viral footage or anonymous claims.
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