Sola Faleye: The Trusted And Loyal Aide Of Late Herbert Wigwe

CHUKWUDI IWUCHUKWU

Sola Faleye was the most trusted and loyal aide of the late Herbert Wigwe before he died.

Sola was a staff member of Diamond Bank and was among the assets acquired by Acess back when Wigwe acquired the bank in 2019.

Wigwe found him to be loyal, efficient, self-driven, dedicated, innovative, a goal-getter, and hardworking, so he made him his personal PA, and ever since Sola started working with Herbert, he has always travelled with him.

Whether on a local or international trip, he is there with his boss.

In fact, if you are calling Herbert on the phone and he is not picking his calls, just call Sola, he would give you a heads-up where Oga is and why he ia not picking his calls.

Sola, as expected, was with him in the US and was meant to travel with his boss in the ill-fated helicopter crash.

Untill Sola had this brainwave, instead of travelling with oga in the chopper, why travel with the luggage by road since the chopper could not carry it?

Again, it will take 3 hours and 30 minutes for the luggage to arrive, and since his job was to make sure that his boss was comfortable, there is no way he would be comfortable or go to bed until the luggage arrived, so it makes sense to travel by road.

According to Falaye, he decided to accompany the luggage by road to ensure it arrived safely to his boss, who told him it was a brilliant idea.

So he headed to Las Vegas by road with the luggage while Wigwe, his wife, son, and Mr. Ogunbajo boarded the chopper to the same destination.

While still driving to Vegas, Faleye tried to call his boss and the others on the chopper, but none of the calls went through.

He arrived Las Vegas with the lugages and continued to dial the number of his boss

If was later that the news that the newss was broke to him that he cheated death by whisker as his boss and his entourage could not make it to Las Vegas.

Sola’s name was on the manifest, and when the helicopter crashed, he was listed as one of the victims who died with his boss and family.

Sola was the last person who saw his boss, the wife, and Chizo alive before they embarked on the trip of no return.

It was said that he asked his boss:

Sir, how comfortable are you flying a chopper at night? I have never done it before”

The boss answered.

“ This is America, they have navigation systems for flying a chopper at night,’

Unfortunately, the American navigational system that he trusted so much failed him.

Sola would live with the trauma of the fact that he could have been on that ill-fated flight that ended the lives of his boss and his family and, at the same time, be grateful that God gave him a second chance to live.

– Chukwudi Iwuchukwu