Tragedy struck at the Onikolobo area of Abeokuta, Ogun State on Saturday when a 33-year-old man,
Oluwatosin Otaiku, stabbed himself to death after his fiancee, Olaogun Oluwatoyin, discontinued the relationship.According to Punch ,after the girlfriend made a U-turn, the deceased was said to have become worried, and this made
neighbours, who were aware of the development, to intervene. Effortsvwere made to reconcile them. An eyewitness said the duo was invited to discuss in privacy inside a shop at Safari junction in Onikolobo.Otaiku was said to have hid a knife in his pocket, prepared to end it all if there
was no truce. It was further gathered that Olaogun stood her ground and maintained
that she could not continue with the relationship.On hearing this
unfavourable verdict, the deceased reportedly brought out the knife from his pocket which made Olaogun to run out of the shop, thinking she was the target.
Olaogun was said to have
immediately alerted neighbours who rushed into the shop and met the deceased stabbing himself.He was said to have been rushed to the Mercy Hospital in the Panseke area of Abeokuta.
