FROM GRASS TO GRACE, YINKA AYEFELE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS AFTER CAR ACCIDENT

Its exactly 20 years today 12th of December 1997 since popular Juju artiste Yinka Ayefele had an accident that later became a watershed that transformed his life. The atmosphere then was full of joy because it was Christmas season, Yinka Ayefele stepped out of Femi Johnson`s Glass House building, which was Kola Olawuyi personal office then to deliver advert materials Kola Olawuyi will use during his weekly program at Ogbc Radio in Abeokuta. The details are still as clear like it happened just yesterday for those who clearly remember the incident surrounding the accident back in 1997. He tried to overtake a TCTC bus while his Volkswagen beetle lost control... Exactly 20years today…12th of December 1997. MY TURNING POINT…. GLORY BE TO GOD ALMIGHTY FOR HIS LOVE AND KINDNESS OVER MY LIFE FROM THE PAST 20 YEARS SINCE I HAD THAT ACCIDENT. IT WAS INDEED “MY TURNING POINT” I AM GRATEFUL TO YOU LORD FOR MAKING ME A “LIVING TESTIMONY”. And I sincerely say a big thank you to all my fans all over the world for your unflinching support for the past twenty years….THANKS SO MUCH EVERYONE …where ever you are please acknowledge GOD on my behalf.

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 he will be donating to his alma mater, Ipoti High School. Also on that day, the musician, through his Yinka Ayefele Foundation, will be putting smile 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, was involved in a ghastly motor accident along Ibadan –Abeokuta Road, the tragic event that later became a watershed that transformed his life.