A major twist has been added to controversy surrounding last week’s fatal accident that left former world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua injured and two of his friends dead.
Sports247 reports that the latest twist comes from a son of Joshua’s driver, Adeniyi Kayode, who declared that it was brake failure that led to the accident along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway at Makun area of Sagamu.
Read Also: AFCON 2025: Algeria’s Coach Outlines Aggressive, Mental, Technical Strategies To Floor Nigeria | Sports247 Nigeria
This is in contrast with official statements by road safety officials, who blamed a burst tyre and over speeding by the 47-year-old Kayode for the accident, which led to the deaths of Joshua’s strength coach, Sina Ghami, and personal trainer, Latif Ayodele.
The two late expatriates, who were both aged 36 and long-standing personal friends of Joshua, died when the SUV they were all travelling in rammed into a stationery truck, but the boxer and his driver escaped with minor injuries.
However, a new angle cropped up in the story, after Kayode appeared before a magistrate in Sagamu on charges of dangerous driving causing death, body harm and damage of property, as well as driving without a license.
While the driver’s wife got agitated when the judge remanded her husband in jail pending fulfillment of his N5m bail conditions, their 19-year-old son insisted that his father was innocent, and it was ‘just an unlucky accident.’
The teenager, Ifeoluwa Adeniyi told the Daily Mail: “It’s not his fault, if the truck wasn’t parked there illegally this wouldn’t have happened.
“Dad is not a fast driver; he was following the speed limit and then the brakes failed. He was pushing the pedal, but nothing was happening.
“He tried to swerve and avoid the truck parked by the side of the road but hit it. He’s been driving Anthony for three years, and he’s a good driver.
“The family is very upset by what’s happened and we are sorry for the deaths of the two people.”
