Disregard Negative Reports About Olatoye Sugar, Family Urges

Abiodun Ogunrinde, Ibadan

The family of late Hon Temitope Olatoye Sugar,
the lawmaker representing Lagelu/Akinyele
Federal constituency in the House of
Representatives before his assassination on
March 9, on Sunday debunked all negative
allegations and stories being peddled about the
late lawmaker, describing such news as fake
news and handwork of mischief makers.

The Olatoye family, led by Hon Olajide Olatoye,
the elder brother of the late lawmaker while speaking to journalists at the Olatoye Sugar
Foundation office at Bodija in Ibadan, on behalf of
the family, friends and political associates of late
Temitope Sugar, stated that all the negative
stories trailing his brother’s death is a campaign of calumny on the late lawmaker.

“We maintain also that all these attacks on the
person of late Temitope Olatoye Sugar is best
described as fake news and handiwork of the
mischief makers and political enemies of late Hon
Sugar who planned his killing just to gain cheap
political advantage.

More particular about these
negative impressions is the statement credited to one Mrs Folake stating that late Sugar was once
her tenant.

“It has also come to the attention of the family, the defamatory and maligning reports and publications published by some online mediums
and we have instructed our lawyers to commence
the necessary procedural legal process
preparatory to seek legal redress,” the family stated.

The Olatoye family added that it is pertinent to
state that the deceased lawmaker lived a fulfilled
and philanthropic life and was throughout his life
behind the people, adding that “this accounts for
the reason why he was loved by the people.

Despite our grief, we found this clarification
necessary to debunk all the attacks on the person of late Hon Sugar and the family orchestrated by his political enemies and we urge the general
public to disregard same and remain calm.

“We wish to thank our friends, well-wishers and
the general public for their support and for standing behind the family at this trying moment
as we urge the security agencies to ensure that
the perpetrators of this dastard and heinous crime
are brought to book,” they said.