Convoy of Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, was on Sunday involved in an accident around Sapade-Ajebo stretch at about 9.30am along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

ABEOKUTA—The convoy of Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, was Sunday involved in an accident, leaving his aides with injuries. An eyewitness told Vanguard that the incident occurred at Saapade-Ogeere road, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway at 9:30am, when a commercial bus rammed into the governor’s convoy, damaging one of the Sports Utility Vehicles, SUVs, in the convoy. The governor, however, escaped unhurt, but, two of his aides were reportedly injured, while some occupants of the rickety blue Mistubishi bus carrying foodstuffs also sustained injuries. It was gathered that the governor’s convoy was heading towards Ibadan, while the rickety bus was coming from Ibadan before they had a head-on collision. Eye witness gathered that the accident occurred at a spot where construction works were going on, forcing motorists to use only two of the four-lane road. It was gathered that the driver of the commercial bus reportedly lost control when he faced the governor’s convoy on the narrow road and rammed into the convoy. According to the eyewitness, the occupants of the commercial bus, mainly women and children, sustained injuries. The source said immediately the accident occurred, the governor alighted from his vehicle to sympathise with victims. Confirming the incident, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said no life was lost. The commissioner who said he was part of the governor’s entourage but denied that people sustained injuries. He said the accident involved one rickety commercial bus which reportedly rammed into the governor’s convoy. He said: “it was just a minor accident, no one sustained injury. We are going to Ekiti, only one jeep was affected and we have transferred the occupants to our own bus.”