On 8 September 2002, the motorcade of First Lady Stella Obasanjo — returning from a Child Care Trust (CCT) function at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) in Ogbomoso, Oyo State — struck and killed two LAUTECH undergraduates on the campus access road. A third student was critically injured. Eyewitnesses and student-union accounts cited by The Guardian (Lagos), ThisDay and PM News described the convoy as travelling at speed with police outriders clearing pedestrians from the road.
The student response was immediate. The LAUTECH Students' Union called a campus shutdown; the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Bamiro temporarily closed the university for two weeks to prevent escalation. The Oyo State Police Command opened an enquiry; no driver, outrider or protocol officer was ever prosecuted. The presidency expressed condolences via a statement from the Office of the First Lady but did not visit Ogbomoso. No structured compensation framework was put in place for the families of the deceased.
The Ogbomoso incident is the most documented Nigerian case of a presidential-protocol convoy producing civilian fatalities without consequence, and is regularly cited in the journalism and academic literature on Nigerian Big-Man motorcade culture — alongside subsequent comparable incidents involving state-governor convoys in Lagos (2009), Rivers (2013) and Kaduna (2018). It is also cited as one of the catalytic episodes behind the LAUTECH ASUU chapter's recurring protests over the 2002–2010 period.