By Correspondent in Lokoja.
As Nigerians bemoan the killing of a Vanguard Correspondent, Mr Tordue Salem, allegedly by ‘hit and run driver’ in Abuja about a month ago, another Vanguard Correspondent, Mr Bolu Obahopo, is battling to save the life of his wife who was involved in a ghastly motor accident that claimed five lives and left others with serious injuries.
Our Correspondent reports that Obahopo,who reports for the paper from Kogi state, also lost his step mother in the accident.
Finding showed that the Correspondent’s wife and other passengers were travelling in a bus belonging to the Correspondents’Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists ( NUJ), Kogi state council to Benin for marriage ceremony when the accident happened.
Investigation revealed that one of the tyres of bus bursted on Kabba-Okene to road enroute Benin, an unfortunate developmnt that led the vehicle to summersault.
While five of the passengers died on the spot, Obahopo’s wife,who sustained injuries from the accident has been lying critically at a hospital in Abuja, as at the time of this report on Monday.
Obahopo, who described the condition of his wife as frightening, solicited any financial assistance from members of the publict to enable him secure N3.5 million needed for his wife to under an urgent surgery.
He said:”PLEASE SAVE MY WIFE.
“As some of you might be aware, my wife and son were amongst those involved in an accident few kilometres from Okene while traveling from Kabba to Benin for a wedding on Friday, November 5, 2021. The accident claimed 5 lives; amongst which was my Step mother, Mrs. Comfort Obahopo, my Wife’s sister, Mrs. Titilope Owoyomi Giwa.
“While my son has recovered and just going through routine check-up at Citi – Clinic, Lokoja, my wife’s medical situation is yet to be resolved. We have moved from Okene Zonal Hospital where she was first admitted as an unconscious patient for a day to FMC,Lokoja, then to University Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada and presently at Alliance Hospital, Garki Abuja where she’s to undergo surgery immediately.
“The surgery is to correct her vertebra bones that have rested on her Spinal cord, before physiotherapy process; then we wait on God to give her a possibility to walk again. The surgery is also to correct further damage to her body…and it is urgent!
“The surgery is N2.5 million while the other process is estimated to cost additional N1 million. All together, we need N3.5 million!!! I hereby seek your supports:
1. To support us financially with any amount as we run around to raise the funds.
2. To pray for a successful surgery
3. To petition heaven with your prayers that at the end of the whole process, my wife will be able to walk again.
“So far, we have spent little less than N1 million within the past 9 days in these four hospitals; monies that came from all our savings and donations from some personalities. We are presently financially exhausted and at our lowest ebb.”
The Correspondent gave his account number as: Bolu OBAHOPO, UBA BANK, 2034447686.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
