Sunday, March 10, 2019

Honorable Temitope Olatoye popularly referred to as 'Sugar' Shot dead



Information reaching us has it that he was shot in the eye  during a fracas that erupted while the results of the gubernatorial elections were been reeled out across various voting zones in the state. He was  rushed to UCH Accident and emergency unit before he was pronounced dead by the doctors on duty.

The former Oyo lawmakers defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ADP last year. Hon Olatoye Temitope Sugar was a member of the Federal House of Representatives Abuja representing the good people of Lagelu / Akinyele Federal Constituency and the Chairman, House Committee on Urban Development and Regional Planning for the Federal Republic of Nigeria and was the 2019 senatorial candidate for Oyo central under the platform of Action Democratic Party Sugar hailed from Efungade-Onigbodogi compound, Alafara Oje in Ibadan North East Local Government Area of Oyo State.
While his ancestral villages were Onigbodogi and Alape both in Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State.

 The young Temitope had his primary school education at St Michael Primary School, Yemetu and I.M.G Primary School, Beyerunka, Alafara Oje both in Ibadan. He then proceeded to Ikolaba Grammar School, St Luke’s College, Molete and Alugbo Comprehensive High School, Egbeda, all in Ibadan, Oyo State for his Secondary School education. He later attended Federal College of Education Abeokuta, where he obtained his National Certificate of Educatiom.

He then proceeded to the University of Ibadan where he got a Bachelor’s Degree and also his Masters Degree. Sugar’s political career started with a political appointment as a Supervisory Councillor in Odeda Local Government.

He was then appointed as a Special Adviser at the State level in Ogun State under the administration of His Excellency, Otunba Gbenga Daniel having been the PDP Youth leader in Ogun Central Senatorial District for years. He was a Chairmanship Aspirant in Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State in 2007 under the umbrella of People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

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