Two Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, supporters died in an accident Friday while on their way to receive the
Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo at the Kaduna Airport.
The accident happened at about 5.30pm when a bus carrying them was involved in an accident along Kaduna Airport Road, about 15 kilometres east of Kaduna town,
Sambo had arrived Kaduna ahead of today’s reconciliation meeting of the Northwest zone of the PDP.
Four of the supporters were also critically injured and were rushed to the 44 Army referral Hospital, Kaduna.
The Senior Special Assistant to the VP on Media,Alhaji. Umar Sani described the incident as unfortunate, saying, “The supporters had come to receive the Vice President at the Airport. When we left the Airport, they bus carrying some of the supporters was driving very roughly.
This is something we had been warning them about, but they would not hear. They bus crashed shortly after we left the Airport. Two people were killed. Four were injured. I feel very sad about this. The injured ones, four of them are in 44 Army Hospital.”
Courtesy: Vanguard Lagos Nigeria