The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Fola Adeola, and other party chieftains narrowly escaped death this afternoon in Bauchi, Bauchi State capital.
The near-accident occurred when the chartered airplane conveying Mr. Adeola, the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Boss Mustapha, and the former National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Yusuf Alli, to a scheduled rally in Bauchi crash landed due to non-clearance of the airport runway by airport authorities.
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Despite receiving an approval to land, the pilot discovered as he descended that the runway of the airport had been taken over by rams and goats. It forced the pilot to force-land, damaging the aircraft. None of the passengers in the plane was seriously hurt.
According to the press release obtained by SaharaReporters, another aircraft conveying the ACN presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu, and other leader leaders of the party such as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was forced to hover in the air for about an hour for the runway to be cleared.
The Director of Media and publicity of the Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organization, Ibrahim Modibbo condemned the incident.
“We suspect sabotage,” Mr. Modibbo said. “And as a matter of urgency we call for an investigation into the immediate and remote cause of the runway invasion. If not for the expertise of the pilot, we would probably not be saying what we are saying today,”
Source:
Saharareporters
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