How Fmr. NBA Ibadan Bar Patron, Pa Emmanuel Abiodun Got Killed By Unknown ‘Hit & Run’ Motorcyclist

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan (Premier Bar) Branch
and the entire Legal Profession lost Pa Emmanuel Abiodun on 23rd
day of December, 2020 as a result of the recklessness of a ‘hit and
run’ motorcyclist, fondly called “okada” who hit the late Bar
leader, eventually resulting in his death, according to
Gavel
International.^[1]

The late Pa Emmanuel Abiodun was reported not to survive the
ugly incident and died as a result.

Chief Mutalubi Adebayo Ojo, former Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Oyo State who narrated the incident was
reported to say:

“On Wednesday, the 23rd December, 2020, the sun set for the
Ibadan Bar at the noonsday when an unknown hit and run okada rider,
in their usual notoriety, knocked down one of the finest gentlemen
ever produced by the legal profession, Chief Emmanuel Abiodun.

“The consummate Bar Man, an ex- World Kegite Chief, a past
Chairman and a Patron of the Ibadan NBA, a thoroughbred
professional and a very meticulous person wanted to cross over to
the other side of the road at Alesinloye market area, Ibadan after
his driver had parked at the other end. Sadly enough, he was hit
and knocked down to death by a commercial Okada rider who emerged
from the blues and apparently drove against all the traffic rules
and regulations.

May the soul of our past Chairman and reverred Patron rest in
peace and at home with His Creator”, he said.

However, Chief Ojo has called on the Governor of Oyo State,
Engineer Seyi Makinde to address the bane of this ugly incident in
the state, describing it as indiscriminate.

“All well-meaning citizens , residents and all genuine lovers of
Oyo State must as a matter of urgency and in the overall interest
of our pace-setter call on Governor Seyi Makinde, known and
addressed as GSM to please sit up and hit the ground running in
tackling among other numerous security concerns, the menacious
existential threat that indiscriminate operations of Okada riders
pose and constitute to the security of lives and properties in our
dear State.

“Any casual visitor or even tourist to Oyo State would be safe
to assume and conclude that Oyo State engages daily, in okada rough
driving durbar once one enters anywhere in the State”, he said.

He further added that “The reason for that assumption is not
far-fetched and it largely depends on Oyo State having opened her
boarders and doors to becoming the safe haven and dumping grounds
to all manners of men operating those un-cordinated routes all over
the state without any regards whatsoever for the lives and security
of other road users at all.

“With the chaotic operations of okada riding in Oyo State,
hundreds of citizens of our State have been sent to their graves
untimely while numbers greater than that have been been maimed or
totally incapacitated due to the reckless and uncontrolled
operations of the okada riders in Oyo State. It is an
understatement to assert that Oyo State has become a dumping ground
for the operations of those merchants and agents of death”.

Meanwhile, he urged the Governor of the State to urgently
address the situation in the interest of the people of Oyo
State.

“I want to appeal to the conscience of GSM and his lieutenants
to stop forthwith their roller-coaster style of populist governance
and to please get serious to take firm decisions and drastic
measures to arrest the increasing dangerous trend in order to
preserve the lives of all other citizens of the state who are lucky
for now from either having their lives snuffed out untimely and or
consigned permanently to wheel chairs”, Chief Ojo stated.

Sadly, it was further reported that the late Bar leader, Pa
Abiodun had battled with ill health in the year 2019.

“It was through the grace of God that he survived the sickness
which we consider as a miracle, only for a careless hit and run
okada man to kill him! It is very sad”, a source closed to the
deceased stated.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan (Premier Bar) Branch
and the entire Legal Profession lost Pa Emmanuel Abiodun on 23rd
day of December, 2020 as a result of the recklessness of a ‘hit and
run’ motorcyclist, fondly called “okada” who hit the late Bar
leader, eventually resulting in his death, according to
Gavel
International.^[1]

The late Pa Emmanuel Abiodun was reported not to survive the
ugly incident and died as a result.

Chief Mutalubi Adebayo Ojo, former Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Oyo State who narrated the incident was
reported to say:

“On Wednesday, the 23rd December, 2020, the sun set for the
Ibadan Bar at the noonsday when an unknown hit and run okada rider,
in their usual notoriety, knocked down one of the finest gentlemen
ever produced by the legal profession, Chief Emmanuel Abiodun.

“The consummate Bar Man, an ex- World Kegite Chief, a past
Chairman and a Patron of the Ibadan NBA, a thoroughbred
professional and a very meticulous person wanted to cross over to
the other side of the road at Alesinloye market area, Ibadan after
his driver had parked at the other end. Sadly enough, he was hit
and knocked down to death by a commercial Okada rider who emerged
from the blues and apparently drove against all the traffic rules
and regulations.

May the soul of our past Chairman and reverred Patron rest in
peace and at home with His Creator”, he said.

However, Chief Ojo has called on the Governor of Oyo State,
Engineer Seyi Makinde to address the bane of this ugly incident in
the state, describing it as indiscriminate.

“All well-meaning citizens , residents and all genuine lovers of
Oyo State must as a matter of urgency and in the overall interest
of our pace-setter call on Governor Seyi Makinde, known and
addressed as GSM to please sit up and hit the ground running in
tackling among other numerous security concerns, the menacious
existential threat that indiscriminate operations of Okada riders
pose and constitute to the security of lives and properties in our
dear State.

“Any casual visitor or even tourist to Oyo State would be safe
to assume and conclude that Oyo State engages daily, in okada rough
driving durbar once one enters anywhere in the State”, he said.

He further added that “The reason for that assumption is not
far-fetched and it largely depends on Oyo State having opened her
boarders and doors to becoming the safe haven and dumping grounds
to all manners of men operating those un-cordinated routes all over
the state without any regards whatsoever for the lives and security
of other road users at all.

“With the chaotic operations of okada riding in Oyo State,
hundreds of citizens of our State have been sent to their graves
untimely while numbers greater than that have been been maimed or
totally incapacitated due to the reckless and uncontrolled
operations of the okada riders in Oyo State. It is an
understatement to assert that Oyo State has become a dumping ground
for the operations of those merchants and agents of death”.

Meanwhile, he urged the Governor of the State to urgently
address the situation in the interest of the people of Oyo
State.

“I want to appeal to the conscience of GSM and his lieutenants
to stop forthwith their roller-coaster style of populist governance
and to please get serious to take firm decisions and drastic
measures to arrest the increasing dangerous trend in order to
preserve the lives of all other citizens of the state who are lucky
for now from either having their lives snuffed out untimely and or
consigned permanently to wheel chairs”, Chief Ojo stated.

Sadly, it was further reported that the late Bar leader, Pa
Abiodun had battled with ill health in the year 2019.

“It was through the grace of God that he survived the sickness
which we consider as a miracle, only for a careless hit and run
okada man to kill him! It is very sad”, a source closed to the
deceased stated.