- A vehicle he was travelling in lost control along Ekpoma-Abuja Highway
- He’s reportedly in critical condition
Marcus Onobun, a Nigerian federal lawmaker, has been involved in a horrible accident on his way Abuja.
The lawmaker, who is said to be in critical condition following the ghastly auto crashed on Wednesday, has since been hospitalised.
Onobun representing Esan West, Esan Central and Igueben Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.
He was said to have sustained multiple fractures when a vehicle he was travelling in lost control along Ekpoma-Abuja Highway.
Mr Onobun was travelling from Ekpoma, his hometown, to Abuja when the accident happened, He was rushed to the hospital, and doctors said he would make a full recovery.
The wreckage of the lawmaker’s vehicle, a dark-brown Toyota 4Runner SUV, showed a detached airbag system, a shattered windshield and a disfigured roof.
A section of the highway said to have been neglected by federal authorities after becoming dilapidated was blamed for the accident.
The police in Benin and the road safety office are yet to react to the incident as of Thursday night.
A member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Onobun was the Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly from 2010 until he was elected to the federal House during the 2023 general elections in February.
Get-well-soon messages were said to have poured in from parliamentary colleagues as the lawmaker continued to fight for his life in an undisclosed medical facility
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