She revealed that the untimely death of her husband has plunged the family into deep emotional and financial hardship, appealing to the Oyo state government and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Council, for urgent assistance during this trying period.

The late Ojo Peters, publisher of Daily Monitor online newspaper and media aide to Sat Guru Maharaj Ji, was shot dead on August 18, 2025, in Oke-Ado, Ibadan, after being trailed from a bank where he withdrew N10,000.

Receiving a condolence delegation from Maharaj Ji at their residence, Mrs. Peters, alongside her two daughters, Blessing (15) and Ajibola (9), broke down in tears as she recounted how her husband was shot three times by gunmen who followed him on a motorcycle.

According to police accounts from a nearby vulcanizer who witnessed the incident, the assailants accosted Peters immediately after he alighted from a motorcycle, before fleeing the scene.

She said, “We were told that one of the robbers came down from the bike and demanded that my husband give him the cross bag he was carrying. As a man, my husband initially challenged the audacity of the robber, but when the robber showed him a gun, he voluntarily gave the cross bag to him.

“Immediately the armed robber collected the cross bag, he threw it to the other one on the bike. Ojo wanted to run away from the scene, but the armed robber released a bullet and shot him three times in the stomach. 

“I was told that my husband fell into a drainage as he was struggling to call for help. There was nobody to rescue him, as everybody had run for safety. It was after over an hour that people came back to the scene and found him grappling with life. Nobody could touch him because of the fear of police case.

 “They had to call the police. By the time the police arrived, my husband had lost a lot of blood; they met him holding his stomach where the bullets hit him. They arranged to take him to a nearby hospital, but before getting to the hospital, he gave up the ghost.

“That is how they suddenly turned me into a widow. My husband left home going for his duties as a journalist; I didn’t know that I wouldn’t see him again. He was the breadwinner of the family; he has now left our two daughters for me.

“He loved his children so much; he wanted the best for them. Now, he is no more. I’m only helping someone to sell day-old chicks at Obasanjo Farm on Mondays and Thursdays. The Oyo State Government should please come to our aid; the Oyo NUJ should please assist the family he has left behind.”

Tears rolled uncontrollably from the faces of Maharaj Ji’s delegates, journalists, and sympathisers who visited Late Ojo’s residence as they saw a painting that 9-year-old Ajibola made to mourn the demise of her father.