NEWS:Fire razes Fayose’s G-Class in Lagos • We saw driver packing burnt cash from vehicle –Traffic officer

The Governor of Ekiti State , Ayodele Fayose , escaped death by a whisker on Tuesday after fire consumed his Mercedes - Benz G- Class on the Oshodi -Apapa Expressway, Lagos State .
We learnt that the vehicle had just had a lone accident when the governor fled it and escaped into another car which was in his convoy .
It was gathered that traffic officials with the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency later responded to the incident .
A traffic official and witness said the driver of the G- Class , who waited behind until the fire was put off, later went in to pack some burnt N500 notes and other items in the car .
He said , “The accident happened around 1 .30 pm on the Oshodi -Apapa Expressway inward Airport Road . It happened on the Oshodi bridge , not too far from the LASTMA ’s headquarters .
“We cannot tell the exact cause of the fire . We gathered from those at the scene that the governor was in the G -Class when the accident happened and he quickly escaped into another car in his convoy .
“On getting to the scene, we saw the driver who tried to cover his face with a Fez cap . He watched helplessly as the fire raged on . We alerted the state fire service and LASEMA . The LASEMA response unit had to take one way to access the accident scene because the road was blocked because of the inferno .
“On arrival , they were able to douse the fire. The vehicle was seriously burnt. The driver did not talk to anybody . We saw as he started packing some of the burnt cash in the car . They were N 500 notes . He packed the money with some other items into a polythene bag . This was in the presence of traffic officials and the police . We later cleared the traffic as the wreckage of the car was towed away by LASEMA .”
However , the Special Assistant to Fayose on New Media and Public Communications , Lere Olayinka , said the governor was not in the car .
In a statement he issued on the incident on Wednesday , Olayinka explained that Fayose was heading for the Lagos airport when the car got burnt.
He said the cause of the accident remained a mystery .

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