Mr Paul Owoseeni, the husband of a former commissioner of Ekiti State, Mrs Funke Owoseeni, was attacked by suspected assassins and his five fingers were chopped off.

Narrating the sad incident, the former commissioner said the assains stormed her house at about 8.30pm and turned off the generating set outside, throwing her house into total darkness.

Mrs Owoseeni who claimed that the attack was politically motivated said the suspected assassins demanded to see her but her husband refused to disclose her whereabouts.

She said, aside from her husband, two students living in the building were also attacked with cutlass and iron rod.

“I was able to see them and I had to rush back inside and hid somewhere. They brought my husband inside and started asking, where is your wife? We are here for her and not you.

When he didn’t give them where I was, they started macheting him with dangerous weapons and they did that until they chopped up his fingers and they fled when they saw that he had passed out”, she revealed.

Funke Owoseeni was a commissioner during the first term of Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State.