OLUSEGUN KOKUMO AGAGU (1948 – 2013); Gómìnà télè rí ní ìpínlè Ondó láàrin ọdún 2003 sí 2009.
October 3rd, 2013 was one of the darkest days in the history of the Yorùbá people, particularly, the people of Akure & Ondo State at large. Over one thousand sons & daughters of the state had gathered at the Akure Airport and at the Democracy park in Akure to celebrate the life and times of one of their late leader and former governor, Chief Olusegun Agagu, but what started as a celebration of life suddenly turned into sorrow.
Agagu, a PDP Chieftain and a former Minister of Aviation (1999-2000) and also Minister of Power and Steel (2000-2002). He slumped & died exactly 9 years ago September 13, 2013 while attending a Political meeting in Lagos and was to be given a State burial to be preceded by a Lying-in-State in Akure.
At about 10am on that faithful morning of October 3, 2013, the people of Lagos were drawn to the crash of an aircraft, it was said to be conveying the corpse of a former governor. Who could that be? Ahh!! “double wahala for deadi bodi and de owna of deadi bodi, deadi bodi get accident yepa”.
The Associated Airlines charter flight took off at about 9:30 am on Thursday from the domestic terminal at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport. It was going to Akure but few minutes after taking off the engine reportedly failed and it crash-landed and bursted into flames. It was the chartered flight conveying the corpse of Agagu.
16 out of 20 passengers on board lost their lives in the crash, including: officials of the Ondo State Government, Son of another former governor and the State commissioner for Culture and Tourism; Deji Falae, a protocol officer Bernard Daji, two other officials in the state liason office in Lagos, Tunji Okusanya and his son (proprietors of the Undertaker company) all perished!
When the news of the disaster reached Akure, everyone was thrown into an ocean of sadness, tears flooded the streets, even the then Governor, Olusegun Mimiko wept uncontrollably, the widow, families, clergymen, aide dé camp, police officers, and visitors, everyone cried. Kòsí olùtùnnú ní ìjọ náà lòún, gbogbo ènìyàn ló bara jẹ́.
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