My son’s premonition could have been from God – Crash victim’s father

Late Akeem Akintunde, 35, recently became famous for the Facebook post that preceded his death.

Akeem, one of the victims of the ill-fated Associated Airline plane that crashed on October 3, 2013, had some hours before the incident, posted on Facebook: “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself:

‘if today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today! And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

Therefore, many people suspected that Akeem had a premonition of his death.

His father, Chief Lateef Akintunde, described his son as very religious, saying that his closeness to God might explain the suspected premonition.

Akintunde (snr), who had just finished praying, and clutching the Muslim prayer beads, added that  the family had taken Akintunde’s loss “by faith.”

He said, “My son was very religious and close to God, so that may explain the message he posted. We came from Him and we will go back to Him. We are a religious family, so we have taken everything by faith. We thank God for his life.”

However, Akintunde said his son would be “greatly missed.”

The crash occurred last Thursday, but Akeem had visited his parents the Monday preceding his death.