{"id":14470,"date":"2024-01-29T20:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/suspected-kidnappers-kill-two-traditional-rulers-in-ekiti\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T20:02:38","slug":"suspected-kidnappers-kill-two-traditional-rulers-in-ekiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/suspected-kidnappers-kill-two-traditional-rulers-in-ekiti\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Suspected kidnappers kill two traditional rulers in Ekiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Suspected kidnappers have killed two traditional rulers in Ekiti State.<\/p>\n<p>The monarchs were said to be returning from a security meeting in Irele-Ekiti in a vehicle being driven by one of their colleagues, the Alara of Ikole Ekiti, when they were attacked by gunmen along a community in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST learnt that the two traditional rulers\u2014the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba Olatunde Samuel Olushola and the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti, Oba David Babatunde Ogunsakin\u2014were killed in the ambush, while Oba Adebayo Fatoba, the Alara of Ara Ikole-Ekiti, escaped from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the chairman of the Ajoni Local Council Development Area, Michael Ogungbemi, said the gunmen attempted to kidnap the three traditional rulers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with DAILY POST, the state police spokesman, Sunday Abutu, said, \u201cI will get the details and get back, please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Suspected kidnappers kill two traditional rulers in Ekiti<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected kidnappers have killed two traditional rulers in Ekiti State. The monarchs were said to be returning from a security&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[577,309,15,761],"tags":[582,764,311,180,762],"class_list":["post-14470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ekiti","category-kidnappers","category-news","category-top-headlines","tag-ekiti","tag-headlines","tag-kidnappers","tag-news","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}