Fayose declares 3-days for mourning later Doctors.

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has declared three days of mourning in the state starting from Tuesday for the six Nigerian Medical Sodality, NMA officials,who perished in a road contingency on Sunday.
The Public Cognations Officer of the Lagos State Chapter of the NMA, Peter Ogunnubi, told Premium Times that the affected executives commenced their peregrination from Ekiti with Sokoto as their destination, but never made it. Mr. Ogunnubi, who could not abstain his emotions over the infelicitous incident, verbally expressed “Six of them are already dead”. It was learnt that the medical medicos were peregrinating to Sokoto State for the Annual General Meeting of the NMA. The sodality is yet to disclose the identities of the executives at the time of publishing this report. Details later… It has now been corroborated that the six NMA officials, who were heading to Sokoto from Ekiti State yesterday, died a few kilometers to Kaduna when the 13-seater passenger bus they were peregrinating in, had a contingency.
The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, who declared three days of mourning in the state starting from Tuesday, described the death of the six medical medicos and one driver as the lowest ebb in the history of the state and a monumental loss not only to the People of Ekiti State, but to Nigerians. He gave the identities of the victims as Dr Aladesanmi of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ido-Ekiti; Dr Ojo Taiwo of the Ekiti State University Edifying Hospital (EKSUTH); NMA Secretary, Dr Akinyele Lexy; Dr Ogunseye of the Health Management Board (HMB); EKSUTH Sodality of Denizen Medicos (ARD) President, Dr Olajide, Dr Adeniyi James of the FMC and a driver, Mr Ajibola. Governor Fayose, who urged families, friends and professional colleagues of the deceased, especially members of the NMA to take solace in God who giveth and taketh when it gratifies Him, verbalized “It is my prayer that tragic incident like this will not be witnessed in Ekiti State again and that God in His illimitable mercies will console the families of the deceased”.