Oluwapelumi Adebayo, the killer of a Lokoja-based photojournalist, Ayo Ayepeku has taken his own life by committing suicide.
Oluwapelumi Adebayo’s naked lifeless body was discovered in a Lokoja hotel room at about 12 noon of Thursday, July 24, 2025.
An empty can of snipper liquid which he allegedly drank to kill himself was found in the hotel room.
He also left a suicide note which he also left in the hotel room.
Those who saw the suicide note said they could not decode the message except the last paragraph where Oluwapelumi Adebayo pleaded that they should shield the circumstances of his death from his children.
Oluwapelumi Adebayo was said to have lodged at the hotel early morning of Wednesday, July 23, 2025 after he miraculously escaped arrest by security agents that traced him to where he dumped the corpse of his victim, Ayo Ayepeku.
The hotel located around a popular church in Lokoja has no business name and address
Oluwapelumi Adebayo was said to have come out briefly from his hotel room in the evening of Wednesday and came back within 30 minutes.
And that was the last time workers in the hotel saw him.
However, Oluwapelumi Adebayo, failed to show up to renew his stay at the hotel room this morning.
The development forced the staff on duty to go to his room to knock on the door severally without any response from him.
The staff was said to have called the attention of the hotel manager to the development who also knocked severally on the door of the hotel room without any response from Oluwapelumi Adebayo.
The Manager then decided to peep through the window of the hotel room where he sighted the lifeless body of the Oluwapelumi Adebayo.
The hotel manager then went to the nearby police station to report the incident.
A team of policemen in mufti, said to be aggressive later arrived to force the hotel room open in the presence of the manager and other hotel workers.
Items recovered from the hotel room included an empty can of snipper, a suicide note among others.
It was also discovered that he used a fake name, Pelumi Jacob to lodge in the hotel and gave his work address as Nigeria Correctional Service.
Oluwapelumi Adebayo’s corpse was then recovered and taken to the morgue of Federal University Teaching Hospital, Lokoja, for postmortem by the police team.
Recall that police in Lokoja had on Wednesday launched a manhunt for Oluwapelumi Adebayo for the gruesome killing of Ayo Ayepeku, a photojournalist working with an online newspaper based in Lokoja.
Efforts are still on to retrieve the corpse of Ayo Ayepeku.
Contrary to earlier report that the body of Ayo was dismembered , it was gathered that his body was taken away intact in a deep freezer to an unknown destination by the killer.
(vitalnewsngr.com)
