A supermarket belonging to Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, wife of deceased former Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Grandex Stores, on Sunday went up in flames.
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The food and groceries shop located at Oshuntokun Junction, Bodija, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, was partially razed before the fire was put out.
The Next Edition gathered that the fire started from the back office and gradually spread to the main stores, before the arrival of fire brigades that eventually extinguished the inferno.
Efforts by the men of Oyo State Fire Service and Federal Fire Service to put out the fire from the front proved unfruitful, until a way was found to the back of the supermarket from where the raging fire was eventually put out.
Mrs. Florence Ajimobi who later arrived at the scene, was joined by some of her aides to evacuate some goods from the stores, while some officers of Operation Burst, a joint security outfit of the state, were on ground to prevent looting.
It was learnt that the cause of the fire outbreak was electrical sparks and over-loading of electrical sockets in the supermarket.
