May Day: Electricity Worker Falls During March Past In Ibadan

A mild drama occurred on Monday at the Lekan Salami stadium in Ibadan when one of the members of the National Union of Electricity Employees performing the march past in commemoration of Workers’ Day suddenly fell down from a ladder.

The leaders was used to illustrate the symbol of the union.

Workers’ Day is a yearly event to celebrate the efforts of workers in Nigeria.

An eyewitness, said that all the affiliated unions of the Nigeria Labour Congress were called one after the other for the yearly march past by the compere and when it was the turn of NUEE, they brought a ladder, arrange it and one of them climb it up demonstrating how they normal disconnected electricity supply.

"As he was doing that, in the presence of the state governor, Seyi Makinde, and others eulogising him, the ladder suddenly broke into two and he fell down.

"As we speak, I don’t know his whereabouts. But they quickly rescued him and took him away,” the eyewitness stressed.