Ojodu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) Executive Chairman, Mr David Olusegun Odunmbaku, has called for calm after a truck killed many Grammar School students.<\/p>\n
Odunmbaku, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Jumu’ah Abiodun, expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the truck accident on Tuesday, leaving many students dead.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy heart is broken for the families and friends of students who lost their lives in this horrible accident. This is a devastating tragedy, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the horrible accident that killed Grammar School students,\u201d Odunmbaku said.<\/span><\/p>\n “My heartfelt condolences to the victims\u2019 families, May God grant them the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n The council boss persuaded sympathisers to respect the families privacy. “There’s need for calm in this trying time, we must all at the same time respect the privacy of the bereaved families.”<\/span><\/p>\n The exact number of casualties could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ojodu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) Executive Chairman, Mr David Olusegun Odunmbaku, has called for calm after a truck killed many Grammar School students. Odunmbaku, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Jumu’ah Abiodun, expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the truck accident on Tuesday, leaving many students dead. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3682,3683,3684,3175],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-black-tuesday","tag-condolence","tag-crushed-students","tag-dave-odunmbaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions\/6097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}