Wasiu said “he ate his food after the bank and he told me he was going to use a toilet down there. That was all until I head people shouting. He was still struggling to use get out when I got there but he letter went down inside the water. “Mr Wasiu was arrested by the Marine Police Division.
Eyewitness accounts have it that when politician jumped into the river, he was still
Able to stand upright but he deliberately walked into a deeper portion of the lagoon. It is said that he was thrown a floater and a tyre but he refused to use it. A toilet operator, who does not want his name in print said “we didn’t know what happened in the car before he came here. But when he got to us, he told us he wanted to use our toilet. we were still looking for the key to the toilet when he took off his jacket, wallet and wristwatch, we called him again and he replied in Yoruba language saying Ani mo fe ga” (meaning I want to defecate). Before we knew what was happening, he wa already in the lagoon.”
However some other accounts said the late politician slipped and fell into the lagoon while going to toilet. But almost everybody at the scene agreed that he did not want to be rescued. His son however said that the late politician had just celebrated his wife’s 56 years birthday party and did not seem as though in any state of mind to perform such an act. There are insinuations that he spent a lot of money during the electioneering campaign and that he had hoped he would get a ministerial slot as compensation.
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