Nigerians have paid tributes to popular Nigerian biker Orowale Kolapo, widely known on Facebook as Kola Onifoto, who lost his life in a lone motorbike crash in Lagos.
Punch reported that Kola was involved in the crash on Sunday, March 1, while embarking on what he tagged as his first solo motorcycle trip outside Lagos.
Friends later revealed on Facebook that he had been involved in the accident and was initially rushed to the emergency unit of the Federal Road Safety Corps at 7UP, Ojota and was subsequently transferred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, where well-wishers continued to pray for his recovery on social media.
Kola reportedly succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of Monday, March 2, though this claim has been disputed by some of his friends, who insisted that he died on the spot on Sunday.
As people mourned Kola, many revisited his WhatsApp chat with his mother, which he had shared on Facebook on his new account on February 24.
Kola, a travel enthusiast and Facebook influencer who fought for victims of oppression and scams, captioned the Facebook post:
“My mama nor know say na stubborn she born!”
In the chat, Kola’s mum enquired about his well-being and warned him to be careful and to remember the son of who he is.
“Good morning, hope you are okay. “Hope you are okay please be careful (ijongbon re ti poju) always remember the son of whom you are,” Kola’s mum’s message read.
He replied her in Yoruba, saying he has heard her.
“Motigbo (I have heard you).”
Heartbreak trailed the chat, with some expressing sadness that he didn’t heed his mum’s warning about being careful. Others opined that his mother had a premonition about his death.
See the chat below:
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