President Goodluck
Jonathans and some top government officials escaped an air crash at the Minna
Airport, when a presidential jet developed a technical fault, while they were
aboard.
N9bn presidential jet, Nigerian Air Force 001
(5N-FGT), took the president, others, to Niger state in the morning of March 8,
2014, Saturday, where the Peoples Democratic Party’s North-Central rally took
place.
After the event was over, the President returned to
the airport accompanied by some top government officials, PDP state governors
who had a scheduled trip to Sokoto later this day.
However, several minutes after Jonathan and the
delegation had boarded the aircraft and its door was shut, but the presidential
jet could not move.
Everyone had to disembark from the plane. The
ground services, engineers started their attempts to fix the problem, while
armed security men took strategic positions around the jet.
Soon it became obvious that the fault could not be
easily fixed.
The commander of the Presidential Air Fleet, Air
Vice Marshal Uko Ebong, has directed that a smaller presidential jet, 5N-FGW,
which was used by Vice-President Namadi Sambo in his trip to Niger state, to be
brought for President Jonathan.
He later left the airport in the smaller aircraft
at about 3.35 pm, leaving behind some of his co-occupants in the bigger jet.
Those who were with the President in the faulty
aircraft before they disembarked included the National Chairman of the PDP,
Adamu Muazu, the Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, Tony Anenih, the
former chairman of the party, Ahmadu Ali, the former Sokoto State Governor,
Attahiru Bafarawa, and some presidential aides.
source; news.naij
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