Posted by: The Citizen in Other News January 4, 2014
An aircraft carrying a delegation of the All Progressive Congress was on Thursday prevented from landing at the Gombe Airport.
Our correspondent learnt on Friday that the aircraft was about to land when the pilot saw that a fire truck was parked at the runway.
The delegation was led by a former Minister of State for Power and Steel, Muritala Aliyu.
It was gathered that the pilot informed the APC leaders that he did not have enough fuel to go to back to Abuja.
It was learnt that the plane had to go to Bauchi for emergency landing.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, confirmed the incident, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents.
He said that the APC officials were going to Gombe for the inauguration of the state interim executive of the party.
According to him, the officials had to go to Gombe from Bauchi by road. There are no night flight facilities at the Bauchi airstrip.
Mohammed described the action of the aviation authorities as political prosecution.
The former minister, who led the delegation, in an interview on Friday, said the aviation authorities should have let the pilot know the condition of the airport before he took off from Abuja.
According to him, the pilot was in touch with the control towers at the Gombe Airport, adding that that there was no information that Gombe Airport was closed to traffic until they got there.
When contacted the spokesman of the aviation agencies, Mr. Yakubu Dati, told one our correspondents that a notice to all airmen was issued to pilots before the airport was closed.
According to him, the pilot of the chartered aircraft may have chosen not to obey the notice.
He stressed that the occupants of the aircraft may be trying to gain publicity by ignoring professional instruction by the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria. Punch
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Sometimes I believe that fanusie suffers from acute ignorance and doing the paid job poorly. Why link GEJ with everything that happen to his friends. Please wake up lack of planning cannot be the problem og GEJ. There is nothing wrong if irresponsible people die in plane crash.
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It seems no one is looking at the political side of the issue. Who ordered the truck to be on the runway and why? What if something happens and the plane can't land in bauchi also due to lack of fuel or any other issue and why didn't they inform the pilot? Nigerian political leaders are so desperate that they can even take murderous steps to prevent an opposition from holding a meeting?
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Stephania,
You would appreciate what some of us are saying if you understand the dirty politics some people in Nigeria are playing. Whatever happens, it GEJ that is responsible. The planlessness or arrogance of a bunch of rascals is blamed GEJ. So it is not whether I want every irresponsible people to die, but the crooks with arrogance streak I would not mind what happens to them.
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