Victor Adelakan Adebayo Orekoya
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos State has apprehended three men
for attempting to assassinate a Lagos socialite and businessman, Mr.
Victor Adelakun, aka Ade Lexus
The suspects were allegedly hired by an Ibadan-based hotelier, Mr.
Adebayo Orekoya, aka Bobby Ibadan, who had been declared wanted by the
Lagos State Police Command.source reports
According to police authorities, Bobby Ibadan hired four men in Ibadan
to do the job and gave them an advance of N140, 000.When the suspects
arrived in Lagos on Saturday, they held a meeting at a night club in
Allen Avenue Ikeja, where they were said to have made plans for the
operation.A SARS informant was said to have eavesdropped on their
conversation and immediately alerted the officer in charge of SARS, SP
Abba Kyari.
When the police searched the suspects, guns were found on them including a picture of their target.
A police bulletin made available read in part,
“Around 1am on May 10, 2014, information was received that four
assassins were sent from Ibadan by one Adebayo Orekoya, aka Bobby
Ibadan, who lives in Ibadan GRA, Oyo State.The instruction given to the
assassins was to kill one Ade Victor Adelakun of Ogudu GRA,
Lagos.Consequently, two SARS teams proceeded to the night club where the
suspects were planning their attack. Three men, Ibrahim Lawal, 27; Yomi
Olanrewaju, 25; and Emmanuel Adewale, 25; were arrested, while their
driver, identified only as Samuel, escaped in a Sienna Spacebus.
Upon interrogation, the suspects confessed that Bobby Ibadan sent them
to kill Ade Lexus, his former business partner. N100,000 out of the
N140,000 given to the suspects as mobilisation fee have been recovered
as well as a picture of the victim.”
Our correspondent learnt that SARS detectives were able to establish
contact with Bobby Ibadan using the telephone of one of the suspects.
Bobby Ibadan, who did not know that SARS had arrested his boys, was alleged to have said,
“I want that job done today by all means. Go to the night club where Ade
Lexus hangs out and go and kill him there. If you don’t see him at the
night club, go to his house and get the job done.”
It was learnt that SARS detectives rushed down to Ibadan to arrest Bobby Ibadan, but he was said to have escaped.
Ade Lexus told reporters at his showroom on Lateef Jakande Street,
Ikeja, that he still did not understand why Bobby Ibadan would want to
terminate his life.He thanked SARS men for the “incredible work”,
insisting he was still alive because of their efforts.
He said,
“Bobby is not my business associate, He is not my friend either. A
friend of mine in the United Kingdom was the one that introduced him to
me. I have met with Bobby only on a few occasions.If he had succeeded
with the assassination, no one would have suspected him because he does
not stay in Lagos and we do not chat often. He told me to lend him money
a while ago for a business project, but I turned him down. Maybe that
is what made him angry.Also, the arrested suspects said Bobby alleged
that I snatched his wife. That is not true; I am a happily married man
with beautiful children.
Anyway, I must thank SARS men for this breakthrough. I was surprised to
receive a call from the SARS commander that I was the target of an
assassination. I did not know the Nigeria Police worked in such a
manner, I am impressed.”
Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the inciden
