Gbenga Daniel’s Aide, Apagun Olumide, Found Dead In A River

The lifeless body of Apagun Wole Olumide, a political and business ally of immediate past governor, Gbenga Daniel, was recovered from a river beside the disputed Golf Resort Hotels.

It is yet unclear if Apagun Olumide, whose remains reached the Police around 10:00am on Saturday, committed suicide or he was murdered.

Apagun was reportedly being driven to the Resort when he suddenly asked his driver to pull up beside a bush path, which he disembarked from the car to follow. When his driver got no trace of him after about an hour, he raised an alarm that led to a search of the vicinity. His cap was seen beside a nearby river, prompting a team of local divers to jump into it. His motionless body was subsequently recovered.

Until his death, Wole Olumide, an architect, was the Apagunpote of Egbaland — a chieftaincy titled he held with glamour and was respected for. He was also the chairman of the hotly controversial Golf Resort Hotels, alleged to have been employed by the former governor to siphon state funds. And as a right-hand man of Daniel, he has been fingered in allegations of looting of Ogun State's funds in past years and he has allegedly been implicated in the ex-governors hunt by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission