Barely 24 hours after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo lost an escort rider, Ali Gomina, another one of his escort riders has lost his wife, TheCable is r
Barely 24 hours after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo lost an escort rider, Ali Gomina, another one of his escort riders has lost his wife, TheCable is reporting.
Yusuf Bawa, the escort rider was the one who was supposed to be on duty at the time of the accident that led to the death of Gomina, a police inspector who was knocked down while trying to clear the way for the motorcade of the vice-president. The vice-president was heading to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja when the unfortunate incident happened. Gomina had stepped in for Bawa, who was attending to his sick wife. Sadly, his wife died on Saturday morning.
Osinbajo paid a condolence visit to the family of Gomina, whose youngest child is just two days old. During the visit to the residence of the deceased officer in Gui, Abuja Municipal area council, Osinbajo assured them that the federal government would support the family in anyway necessary to ensure they are comfortable. The late Gomina who lost his first wife, Ajara, on September 29, 2016, is survived by his second wife, Asiya, and 12 children.
His second son, Abdullahi, and first daughter, Hafsat, described the deceased as the best father anyone could ask for. They, however, appealed to the government to offer them scholarship to enable all of them go to school. They also cried out for help to enable them complete a house he had started to enable the family move in.
Speaking to the media after the visit, Laolu Akande, spokesman of the vice-president, said the federal government will do all that is necessary to ensure the family is comfortable.
