Senate Minority Leader and former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, escaped death in Abuja on Monday morning after his car got involved in an accident along the busy Airport Road.
The accident occurred near the Bolingo Junction close to the Ship House in Abuja. A witness disclosed that Mr. Akpabio 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,” the eyewitness told Premium Times.
He said Mr. Akpabio was badly shaken and was in a traumatic condition when he was brought out of the crashed vehicle. He said the former governor was apparently rushing out of the city when his convoy beat the traffic and crashed.
Akpabio was still at the National Hospital in Abuja as at the time of posting.
