Gospel Musician, Yinka Ayfele on saturday night, lost one his band members after one of the trucks conveying the musical instruments entered a pot hole along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and swerved off the road into a deep ditch.
The deceased Tunde Oduneye, 39, was confirmed dead at the University College Hospital around 11pm on Saturday. Other occupants of the vehicle sustained various degrees of injury.
In press statement released by the Merry Makers band, they had been contracted to perform at the wedding ceremony of the daughter of Olu Amore, a Commissioner of Police, before the truck conveying the equipment back to Ibadan had the accident shortly after the old toll plaza at Ogere.
Yinka Ayefele who visibly shocked was seen being consoled by sympathizers at the Accident and Emergency Ward of UCH.
In 1997, Ayefele himself was involved in an accident along Ibadan-Abeokuta road in which he sustained a spinal chord injury that was to later confined him to the wheel chair.
The deceased is survived by a wife and two year old baby.
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