26th October, 2012
The Nigerian governor who survived an air crash yesterday, Danbaba Suntai of Taraba state and was hospitalised at the Specialist Hospital, Yola, is responding to treatment.
The Commissioner of Police in Adamawa state, Mr Godfrey Okeke, made this known in Yola, shortly after visiting Suntai at the hospital early on Friday morning.
Okeke affirmed that the governor was doing well.“He is alive and in stable condition. He sustained minor injuries; if he had been were an ordinary man, he would have been discharged but I learnt he would be flown abroad for further medical checkup,’’ he said.
Okeke also confirmed that the other persons aboard the seven-seater plane, including the governor’s aide-de-camp, were also alive.He added that they were receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre in Yola.