FUOYE class governor falls from bike, dies while trying to submit classmates’ assignment

Taiwo Gbolahan, a 100-level student of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), died on Friday while trying to submit his classmates’ assignment on the Oye campus of the institution.

The deceased was the class governor of the Department of Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Environmental Design and Management, Ikole-Ekiti campus of the university.

A student who does not wish to be named told FIJ that Gbolahan was involved in an accident on the Ikole-Oye road.

According to the source, Gbolahan’s department was meant to submit their MTH 101 assignment by 8 am on Friday or they would have carryovers. As the class governor, he had to collate his classmates’ assignment papers for submission.

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“In the early hours of December 16, he boarded a motorcycle to Oye park In Ikole-Ekiti. He fell down while the bike rider was trying to overtake a vehicle,” the source said.

“After the accident, he was taken to the school clinic, but they did not have the facilities to treat him. Then he was taken to the hospital in Ido-Ekiti but couldn’t make it.”

The institution’s Student Union Government (SUG) also confirmed the incident on their Twitter page.

“With sadness, we mourn the sudden demise of Gbolahan, a 100lv stream A Governor of Faculty of Environmental Design at the IKole Campus, who lost his life in an accident in the early hours of today,” it wrote.

“As a result of this, the university management and the union have scheduled to hold an emergency meeting with the leadership of 100lv students and other stakeholders of the union in the Ikole campus tomorrow morning without any further delay.

“To curb the reoccurrence of the such sad development, we are engaging the concerned authorities for immediate action and fixing of administrative loopholes that make our students usually risk their lives on IKOLE-Oye road.”