VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update
Chief Olusola Oke SAN, on Tuesday informed his friends, associates and supporters that he had a close shave with death in the last motor accident he was involved in.
He stated this during a Thanksgiving Service held in appreciation of God for surviving the August 25, 2023 ghastly accident along the Ore-Okitipupa Road.
The governorship aspirant in the 2020 gubernatorial election in Ondo State disclosed that the accident almost put his family and friends on the edge.
Oke said: “In the more than six decades of my existence, I have had harrowing experiences that challenged the whole essence of my being, and ruffled my feathers, until the last one that, once again, vigorously tried to shake my faith in God but rather ended up strengthening it, and put my family members and friends on the edge.
“In it all, God sustained me still.
The journey I embarked on to the southern part of Ondo State, on Friday August 25, 2023, was like any other ones I made in the past, but turned out to be a memorable watershed, as I had a very close shave with death.”
Giving a vivid picture of how the accident happened and his unexplainable escape, Olusola Oke explained “Due to the recklessness of a road user, a vehicle coming from the opposite direction, and dangerously overtook another vehicle at a sharp bend, needed to escape having head-on collision with the vehicle I was travelling in.
“In an attempt by my driver to avert running to it, he manoeuvred the vehicle, very swiftly but reasonably timely, but the dislocated vehicle that we were trying to escape, in an ordinarily inexplicable way, hit our vehicle from the rear, forcing it to somersault about three times.
“In the process of this auto gymnastics, I was flung out of the vehicle, leaving my driver, personal assistant and the security detail trapped inside. By the time my driver and others managed to squeeze themselves out of the wreck of the vehicle, I was lying flat at the middle of the road. Mercifully, there were no vehicles driving pass the very busy road at that moment, and God saved me from being run over and crushed to death.
“The questions then are; how did I avoid being run over by another vehicle; why did I not hit my head on the tarred road; why did I not suffer spinal cord injury but for fractured bones and broken ribs, if not for the abundant mercy and divine invisible hand of God that was involved?
“Just before my driver and others got out of the vehicle, it caught fire, and got razed after their miraculous escape, while I was moved away from the middle of the high way to the road side.
“Our evacuation from the accident scene to the Trauma Centre in Ondo by good Samaritans was a major medical step to halt our drift from life to death, even though there were no noticeable life-threatening physical injuries sustained.
“After the initial medical attention in Ondo, I was moved to Akure for observation and preparation to Abuja for concentrated clinical and family cares. The devil did not give up on the need to precipitate complications when my treatment lasted, but God summarily silenced him.
“By the good involvement of the God that cures, wonderful efforts of medical doctors that care, and committed family members as well as friends that provided needed emotional and physical supports, my bones were strengthened, my body was renewed, and my emotions were recalibrated, and I am sufficiently sound today.”
The Thanksgiving service was a gathering of numerous personalities from all walks of life, particularly politicians
It was a potpourri of politicians across party lines as they all came to celebrate with one of the prominent chieftains of APC who would wrest the governorship ticket of the party in 2024.