Photo: Deputy Vice Chancellor, his 14 year old son and four others die in car crash along Lagos- Ibadan expressway

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor-designate of
Fountain University, Osogbo, Prof. Abdul
Hakeem Mobolaji, his 14 year old son,
Muhammad and four others died in a car
crash along the Lagos Ibadan expressway on
Sunday September 20th.
According to The Nation, the professor of
Econometrics was traveling with his two sons,
the late Muhammad and Abdul-Hafiz as well
as one of his friend, Mr Abdul-Rasheed Attah,
a lawyer, when a commercial bus rammed into
his SUV after overtaking another vehicle on
the narrow road.
The road had been partitioned by the
contractor working on it. Professor Mobolaji
and his son died on the spot. His friend Attah
and the late Mobolaji’s second son,
AbdulHafiz were injured. Attah immediately
called a relative and gave his phone to a
woman to inform the person of the accident.
Shortly after, he and Abdul Hafiz went into a
coma. Four people including the driver of the
passenger bus died in the accident.
Speaking on the sad incident, the deceased
professor's son, Abdul Azeez said "Who will
take care of us now that he is late? I was
expecting to link up with him at Fountain
University today (Monday). I was calling his
phone on Sunday when I didn’t hear from him
whether he has reached Ibadan where he was
expected to pick other family members but he
wasn’t picking his calls. I called him severally
up to 30 times but no one was picking the
call. I called the MD of Al Barakah
Microfinance Bank to tell him that I have been
calling my father but he was not picking his
call that he should help me call him but later
he came back with some people to announce
his death that Allah has taken him back. I
pray to Almighty Allah to grant the family the
fortitude to bear the loss because he was the
bread winner of the family and no one else.”.
The late professor and his 14 year old son
were on Monday buried in Akinyele Local
Government Area, Oyo State.