The convoy of the Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, around Umutu, in Ukwuani Council Area of the state allegedly crushed an elderly farmer to death.
It was gathered that the accident happened when one of the buses in the governor’s convoy was returning from the Niger Delta Stakeholders’ Meeting, held at the Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun.
The event hosted by Chief Edwin Clark.
A source within the convoy said that the bus carrying the pressmen ran into the man, who was said to be returning from his farm. He was said to have tried to dodge a pothole along the Agbor/Abraka expressway.
Some of the pressmen in the vehicle also sustained varying degrees of injuries, prompting them to almost lynch the driver, until Okowa personally intervened.
It was gathered that the victim who was rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Abraka was later said to have been referred to Asaba for medical treatment, where he died.
the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah, the governor’s spokesman, Mr. Charles Ehiedu Aniagwu, and the Nigeria police are yet to comment on the issue.