Four people, including a journalist working with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akure, Mr. Alex Akinwale lost their life in a fatal motor accident involving the convoy of the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi on Saturday, February 1, 2014.
They were said to be among the occupants of a vehicle belonging to the NTA Staff when the convoy of the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi rammed on the Toyota Camry of a Traditional monarch, Oba Taofeek Olaposi, who was coming from Osun State, and heading to Akure.
The deceased are the Chairman of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Alex Akinwale, his wife, Rebecca, and daughter, Pauline.
The Akinwales first child, Paul, who was also involved in the crash, however, survived.
The wife was a staff in the Marketing Department of the NTA, Akure.
However the deputy governor escaped death.
Eyewitness account revealed that the crash occurred at Apomu-Owena along Akure –Ondo Road when a white Toyota Camry car belonging to the monarch ran into Olanusi’s convoy among other vehicles while trying to overtake.
Sunday Vanguard learnt that the driver of the Camry dangerously overtook the vehicles and, in the process, rammed into on-coming vehicles including those in the deputy governor’s convoy resulting in the multiple accident.
An eyewitness said all occupants of the vehicle which included the reporter’s pregnant wife, Mrs Kehinde Akinwale, two children and a house maid of the NTA staff, died on the spot.
Akinwale, a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Akure was also the local chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), NTA Akure chapter until his death.
A staff with the organization revealed that the deceased was transferred from NTA Ikare, to NTA akure, where he was performing his duties brilliantly, and where he got along famously with his fellow staff members there.
Akinloluwa was said to have survived the ghastly accident, and is receiving treatment at a family hospital in Akure.
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