Several high-profile Nigerians including the Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun, President/Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, Political economist, Prof Pat Utomi have paid a condolence visit to the late Herbert Wigwe’s parents.
Others who have paid a visit are the Chairman of Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede; and the Founder of Stanbic IBTC and Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside, among others
Wigwe, the former Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Corps, his wife and first son died in a chopper crash in California, United States.
It is however not the first time that Shyngle, father of the late Herbert Wigwe, has lost a son to a transportation accident.
Checks reveal that, in contrast, Herbert’s elder brother, Osita also died from a road accident.
In an interview, he granted TheCable with his wife Stella in 2018, Shyngle said Osita was 34 years old when he died in 1997 while traveling from Lagos to Port Harcourt.
The former DG NTA said he was attending a ministers’ conference at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) on June 5, 1997, when Osita died in a road accident while traveling from Lagos to Port Harcourt.
“I never sweated like that in my life before and I didn’t think it was going to happen to me. For weeks, I couldn’t go up to the altar. I went, then I wept, and I came down. It was like somebody took a pair of forceps to draw out your heart from you,” he said.
“That boy was one in a million. He had the attributes of a daughter; he had the attributes of a son. He was a solution provider to all family problems. If I had him, I thought I had everything. For quite some time, I didn’t feel life was worth living anymore. We spoke as brothers, not as father and son.”
