Twenty Years After, Ayefele Commemorates Ghastly Crash
Former broadcaster and one of Nigeria’s best known gospel singers, Yinka Ayefele is set to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the ghastly auto accident that has confined him to a wheel chair.
Ayefele said he was grateful to be alive and owes \god a debt of gratitude.
According to the musician, in appreciation of God’s mercy, he has concluded plans to mark the two decades of the accident with a week-long series of activity traversing two states of Oyo and Ekiti starting from December 12 and climaxing on December 17.
As part of the activities lined up, on Tuesday, December 12, Ayefele and his friends will be in his hometown of Ipoti, Ekiti State, to commission a multi-million Naira hall which he will donate to his alma mater, Ipoti High School.
Also on that day, the musician, through his Yinka Ayefele Foundation, will be putting smiles on the faces of 100 women of Ipoti stock by empowering them with various cash gift.
Within that same week, Ayefele and his team will be visiting various orphanages, old people’s homes and hospitals, particularly, the University College Hospital, UCH in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, where he will present buses, cash gift and food items to the less privileged in the homes and patients in the hospital.
The remembrance event will climax on Sunday December 17 with a thanksgiving service, launching of the 20th year remembrance album and public presentation of his first book titled “You and Your Spine”.
The event will hold at the Music House, Challenge, Ibadan.
Ayefele, on December 12, 1997 involved in a ghastly motor accident along Ibadan –Abeokuta Road, the tragic event that later became a watershed that transformed his life.
This life changing event has been the motivation for many powerful and inspirational album releases. He is also a recipient of over 200 awards including Member of the Order of the Niger, MON, a recognition bestowed on him by former president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Speaking on the significance of the week-long event, Ayefele said he believes the incident, though a sad one, was what transformed his life and he has to reach out to people in order to appreciate God’s magnanimity in his life over the last two decades.