Senator Godswill Akpabio, the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State was involved in a motor accident this morning, as he escaped death by a whisker.
The siren-blaring convoy of the former governor was said to have crashed into other vehicles, with the former governor sustaining injury.
A witness said Mr. Akpabio was moving in a convoy of vehicles towards the City Gate when his vehicle ran into another car.
According to a witness:
“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 witness said Mr. Akpabio was badly shaken and was in a traumatic condition when he was brought out of the crashed vehicle.
The level of injury sustained was not disclosed by the doctors at the National Hospital, who claimed that it was the family that had the right to do so.
Governor Udom Emmanuel, Akwa Ibom governor has visited his predecessor at the National Trauma Center of the National Hospital.
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