[7] One inmate, who claimed to have run away when he heard gunshots, returned to the prison to serve out his short sentence.

[9] Kehinde Fadipe, the comptroller general of the Nigerian Prisons Services, refuted the claims that the unknown gunmen were members of the Boko Haram,[10] an Islamic sect in northeastern Nigeria, on the basis of the fact that none of their members was awaiting trial in that prison.

[11][12][13] On 1 December 2014, Ekiti State executive governor Ayodele Fayose accused prison officials of conspiring with the unknown gunmen to launch the attack.

[15][16] Adedipe was convicted of the murder of a former state chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Chief Omolafe Aderiye.

[17] This generated a lot of reactions and controversies across the state, especially between the Peoples's Democratic Party, PDP[18] and the opposition party, the All Progressive Congress, APC,[19] but the claim that OPC was responsible for the attack was annulled because Fadipe never escaped as earlier alleged.