Taibu Ogunbajo, the baale of Ise Town, has a block-moulding factory at Folu, a community in Ibeju Lekki, on which premises he ran down his wife Rotimi.
She, according to neighbours, had a problem with her husband last Thursday that morning, and, angry, she stormed out of the house to destroy blocks already moulded.
Taibu reportedly entered his Toyota Highlander, and was driving out of the premises in anger when he knocked down his wife.
The wife died on the spot. The baale has been arrested too.
“He (Taibu) is the baale of the community. He and his wife had been having issues since they got married. I did not know what actually happened between them on that day, but I learnt that they had a disagreement in the morning,” a community leader named Akinsipe said.