Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri almost avoided death on Saturday when a truck plowed into two of the vehicles in his escort.
A witness claims that the event took place immediately after the governor and several of his commissioners left a wedding at the Agga Mosque in Yola, the state capital, and visited a posh neighbourhood called Dougirei.
Two of his vehicles were smashed by a truck that was moving down the incline, injuring Inspector Madu and Sergeant Isa, two police officers.
Muhammad Dougirei, a local, claimed that the tipper suddenly accelerated at the governor’s convoy at such a high rate of speed, implying that the driver had lost control.
Security personnel in charge of directing traffic at the event, according to him, scrambled in all directions.
According to Dougirei, the truck driver was able to veer the truck away from the direction of the bus carrying the governor to strike the government building’s official vehicle housing the permanent secretary for Political and Security Affairs as well as the Peugeot 406 carrying the two injured police officers and a video journalist.
He claims that the police escort, therefore, roughed up the old driver and a young guy who begged them to be gentle with him before putting the driver in a police pick-up van and driving him to the city’s Jimeta Police Division.
The governor, who was unharmed, reprimanded the driver directly before hastily moving him to a Toyota jeep.
According to a security source, the Sergeant had recovered consciousness while the injured Inspector was still unconscious in the intensive care unit of the Specialists Hospital.
The governor and other passengers seated next to him on the bus were only rescued by sheer chance; the tragedy happened in the space of a blink of an eye. Watch when the truck slammed the two vehicles and the armed security guards fled for their lives.
As reported by an eyewitness.
The Supreme Court dismissed the governor’s challenge to his victory in the primary election on Friday, solidifying him as his party’s nominee for governor in the 2023 election.
DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, a spokesman for the Adamawa Police Command, pledged to obtain information about the event when contacted.
