One of the three aircraft that Atiku Abubakar’s presidential campaign used to travel to Anambra State and campaign caught fire just before takeoff at the Anambra State International Airport, thus sparing the campaign from a major disaster.
Despite the incident taking place on Thursday, December 15, 2022, it wasn’t until just an hour ago that the world learned about it thanks to an exclusive report by the news website 247ureports.com. The PDP presidential rally had just ended in Ekwueme Square in Awka, the capital of Anambra, when the event took place, according to the report.
According to the report, “At the conclusion of the campaign rally, the PDP presidential candidate and the dignitaries who had joined the campaign train trooped to the Anambra Airport where three private jets were parked awaiting the arrival of the PDP campaign train.
“Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and his immediate family and close aides boarded one of the Jets and taxied out. It took off uneventfully. The second Jet also taxied and took off uneventfully.
“However, the third jet was not as successful.”
The third jet which had PDP heavyweights as occupants, among them former Cross River Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, was said to have caught fire shortly before take-off.
“The flight had to be aborted when the pilot noticed fire in one of the engines of the private jet,” a prominent member of the Atiku campaign team confided this Monday morning, December 19.
The Airport Crash Tender (known in some countries as an airport fire appliance) immediately averted disaster by promptly putting off the fire.
Source: 247Ureports
