My Warning And Last Word To Wigwe Before He Died—Olushola Faleye, Personal Aide To Wigwe

<h4>My Warning And Last Word To Wigwe<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that for the first time&comma; a vivid and accurate account of what transpired hours  before Herbert Wigwe died emerged yesterday at Eko Hotel&comma; Victoria Island&comma; Lagos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Herbert Wigwe died in a helicopter crash&comma; along with his wife&comma; Doreen&comma; son&comma; Chizzy and former Managing Director of Nigerian Exchange Group&comma; Abimbola Ogunbanjo&comma; in the US&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was a night of tributes for the late Group Managing Director&sol;CEO of Access Bank Plc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was also the biggest statement that Nigeria&comma; as a country&comma; is not poor after all in view of the display of Sport Utility Vehicles&comma; SUVs&comma; popularly called &OpenCurlyQuote;jeep’ which outnumbered the available parking space of the hotel and s<strong>tretched<&sol;strong> across the length and width of Adetokunbo Ademola Street&comma; including other connecting streets on Victoria Island&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Aside Emir Mohammed Sanusi&comma; the leader of the Tijjaniyya movement and 14th Emir of Kano&comma; other personalities&comma; including Vice President Kashim Shettima&comma; also paid tributes to the deceased&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The attendance list had big wigs like Alhaji Aliko Dangote&comma; President Dangote Group&comma; Abia State Governor&comma; Alex Otti&comma; Aigboje Aig- Imoukhuede&comma; Chairman Coronation Group&comma; Henry Imasekha&comma; Chairman&sol;CEO – Berkeley Group Plc&comma; among other dignitaries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Olaleye&comma; said in his tribute &colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyQuote;’Five of us embarked on that journey&comma; I remember Mr&period; Bimbo chatted me and said he wants to come with us&comma; it was a Tuesday and I told him&comma; my boss’ journey is not always straightforward&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Sometimes you can get in the air and divert to somewhere else and he said he was going to wait&period; &OpenCurlyQuote;’I still tried to let him understand that we would be in London Wednesday&comma; Thursday and Friday&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>He said he will stay in his house and wait&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> I really don’t know why I was trying to convince him&comma; I don’t know&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>&OpenCurlyQuote;’It was a sweet journey&comma; eleven hours&period; We flew from London to Palm Springs&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> I remember in the middle of the air&period; I walked up to him and said sir&comma; how comfortable are you flying chopper at night&quest; &OpenCurlyQuote;’I’ve never done it before&period; And he said a word&period; He said this is America&period; They have navigation system for flying chopper at night&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>And I went back to my seat&period; &OpenCurlyQuote;’We landed&semi; everybody was filled with joy&comma; they were finally almost there&period; We waited to be cleared by immigration and we came out&comma; so coming out&comma; we had two vans waiting&period; &OpenCurlyQuote;’One was to take us to board the chopper&comma; the other was to take our luggage because they cannot go on the chopper&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Like I said&comma; I always reason in the line of duty&comma; so I walked up to him and said I think it’s safer and more secured to ride and bring the luggage to you&period; He said brilliant idea and I said safe flight&period;’’<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;