Tragedy struck on Saturday night when one of the trucks conveying musical equipment of ace musician, Yinka Ayefele, entered a deep pothole along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and swerved off the road into a deep ditch, killing one of the engineering crew members aboard, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries.
The deceased, Tunde Oduneye, 39, was confirmed dead at the University College Hospital around 11pm on Saturday.
The Merry Makers band, in a release signed by the Publicist of the band, David Ajiboye, 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.
A visibly shocked leader of the band, Yinka Ayefele, was seen being consoled by sympathizers at the Accident and Emergency Ward of the UCH, where injured members of the crew were being treated.
The deceased’s body has been interred in his home town of Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State on Sunday evening.
He is survived by a wife and a two-year-old baby.
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