APC youth leader dies in ghastly accident (PHOTOS)

<p><strong>APC youth leader dies in ghastly accident &lpar;PHOTOS&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Kola Bello<&sol;a>&comma; the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar;<&sol;a> youth leader in Iseyin&comma; Oke-Ogun area of Oyo state&comma; is dead&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bello died in a car accident along Ibadan-Iseyin road at the weekend while returning home from the APC’s &OpenCurlyQuote;Southwest Progressive Youth Festival’ held in Ibadan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;12920" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-12920" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-12920" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;02&sol;FB&lowbar;IMG&lowbar;1644211804135-300x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"300" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-12920" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Late kola Bello<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>His body has been deposited at a morgue in the state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;12921" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-12921" style&equals;"width&colon; 225px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-12921" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;02&sol;FB&lowbar;IMG&lowbar;1644211806682-225x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"225" height&equals;"300" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-12921" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Kola Bello&&num;8217&semi;s car<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>People have been grieving on the social networking service&comma; Facebook&period; Reacting to Bello’s death&comma; Chairman&comma; Board of Commissioners of the Nigerian Communications Commission &lpar;NCC&rpar; wrote&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ANOTHER SAD LOSS<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>It took me time to accept that my brother and young friend&comma;Kolawole Bello is gone the way of all mortals&period;We grew up under the same roof at Oke Alafia in Iseyin while I schooled at the Anwar Ul Islam High School&period; His father&comma;the legendary G&period;A&period;Bello was our English Language teacher&period; Kola was a chip of the old bloc&period; A patriot always brimming with ideas to improve the society&period; He loved his hometown Iseyin like very few does and was an Oke Ogun irredentist and a politician of the progressive hue&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Hardworking&comma;ebullient and forthright&comma;he was the ideas man in any gathering he found himself&semi; social&comma;cultural&comma;religious or political&period; It is a shame that such a devoted&comma;committed and patriotic Ambassador was denied the opportunity to represent the people of Iseyin again and again and again until he breathed his last&period; As it is said&comma; Nigeria kills its brightest stars&period; The circumstance of his death is more painful because Kola had survived a near fatal accident on the same Ibadan-Iseyin road many years back&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>I pray that God holds mama &comma;his young wife and children and siblings&period; May God forgive his sins and grant him eternal life&period; Adieu &comma;my dear brother&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Similarly&comma; Shina Peller&comma; the lawmaker representing Iseyin&sol;Itesiwaju&sol;Kajola&sol;Iwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State at the House of Representatives&comma; wrote&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;2023-osinbajo-reveals-when-hell-declare-presidential-ambition&sol;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;ff0000&semi;">Osinbajo Reveals When He&&num;8217&semi;ll Declare Presidential Ambition<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My heart is heavy&semi; my mood is gloomy&comma; my voice is weak&comma; my eyes are swollen&period; It is a mourning moment for me as I lost my Legislative Aide &lpar;LA&rpar;&comma; Comrade Kola Bello&comma; to a fatal accident on his way from Ibadan to Iseyin yesterday&period; We buried him today in Iseyin&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Kola Bello wasn’t just my LA&comma; he’s my brother&comma; and his immense contributions to my political activities&comma; right from the campaign period preceding 2019 general elections till when he exited the world&comma; remains valuable to me&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Kola Bello is an illustrious son of Iseyin&comma; political icon and grassroots mobilizer who would always agitate for&comma; initiate and support every course that will boost the development of Iseyin and the Oke Ogun region as a whole&period; Without doubt&comma; he will be greatly missed by me&comma; the All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar;&comma; Oke-Ogun indigenes and residents at large&period; I pray that his soul finds peace with God&comma; and that God consoles us all&period; Amen&period; Adieu my brother&comma; Kola Bello&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Peller’s colleague&comma; Dapo Lam Adesina penned&colon; <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is another tragedy<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>You were a star waiting to shine but God knows best<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>We will keep the flag flying<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>You will surely be missed&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Rest on my brother Kola Bello&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;