PDM mourns Iyayi, cautions on executive recklessness

The road accident, which led to the untimely death of Prof. Festus Iyayi, 66, a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and world class writer and academic, in Lokoja, Kogi State while on his way to a meeting in Kano to end the over four-month-old ASUU strike, has come as a rude shock to the Peoples Democratic Movement.
The party said demise of Iyayi has come at a time when his academic services are needed the most.
The PDM deplored the incessant loss of valuable Nigerian lives due to avoidable road accidents caused by poor road construction and, often, by reckless and dangerous driving by highly placed Nigerians.
“Nigeria has endured too much loss of its priceless human assets through untimely deaths resulting from unnecessary road accidents,” lamented the National Chairman of PDM, Mallam Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim, who spoke through his Media Advisor, Alaba Yusuf.
Yusuf added: “Prof. Iyayi’s death, in a car crash allegedly involving the convoy of Kogi State Governor is regrettable and speaks to the need by highly placed Nigerians to lead by example instead of engaging in acts which continue to make our roads unsafe.
“Iyayi was a global academic icon who needed not to die in the manner he did.
“We pray for the repose of his soul and further pray God to grant his family the fortitude to bear the sad loss.”