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How Obasanjo’s Wife Was Murdered In Traffic On Valentine’s Day
It was about midday on Friday, February 14, 1987, in a commercial area of Lagos. Obasanjo’s Wife In the middle of the street, a gang of young men approached a Peugeot sedan. In the vehicle was Lynda Obasanjo, the wife of Nigeria’s former military Head-of-State, Olusegun Obasanjo.
She was approached and asked to surrender her vehicle. Witnesses say the men shot at her after she refused to yield her car. The assailants shot the 45-year old Linda Obasanjo, Nee Soares, through her car window, then dragged her body from the vehicle and sped away. She was killed at about noon in a commercial district of Lagos. Obasanjo’s Wife About three miles away, the attackers abandoned the Peugeot vehicle.