How Ex-Governor Akpabio Was Almost Killed In Car Crash

 

Nigerian Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, reportedly escaped death this morning, August 31,  after his car got involved in an accident along the Airport Road in Abuja. It was learnt that the accident occurred near the Bolingo Junction close to the Ship House, Abuja.

An eye witness said the former governor of Akwa Ibom State was moving in a convoy of vehicles towards the City Gate when his vehicle ran into another car.

“My wife and I were coming from the NNPC Mega Station and we stopped at the traffic light by Bolingo Hotel Junction. When the green light showed and we made to move, there was this siren blaring Mercedes Benz jeep that came from the town and almost crashed onto my car. I don’t know how we dodged but another that was behind the jeep hit the car behind me and tumbled on its side.

I and my wife rushed out of our vehicle and helped the driver bring out his boss. When we brought him out, we found that it was former Governor Godswill Akpabio. At the time we brought him out, the siren was still blaring. We put him in the other vehicle and he was rushed to the National Hospital.”

He said Akpabio was badly shaken and was in a traumatic condition when he was brought out of the crashed vehicle and that he was apparently rushing out of the city when his convoy beat the traffic and crashed.

When contacted on the telephone, the Chief Medical Director of the National Hospital Abuja, J. Momoh, said he could not speak on Akpabio’s case because he had no authorisation from the family, and that it was against medical ethics to speak about a patient on admission.

“I cannot speak about a patient on admission without getting approval from his family. You should therefore excuse me,” Mr. Momoh said.