I Miraculously Escaped Fatal Air Mishap- Ganduje

On Thursday, Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje detailed how he escaped a fatal air crash that killed the state’s former military administrator, late Con. Abdullahi Wase, and several other state officials.

This timeline was revealed by Ganduje when he received the newly named Nigerian Ambassador to Romania, Barr. Safiya Nuhu, a Kano native whose father was also killed in the plane crash, on a courtesy visit.

“I was to visit the Wase Juma’at Mosque, which was under renovation, as the Commissioner of Works, Housing, and Transportation at the time.

“And I was in charge of the appeal fund for the mosque’s construction. The governor was scheduled to inspect the project as well as pay a condolence visit to a deceased relative. As a result, I organized the journey.

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“I was able to obtain the aircraft that was used for that trip, which belonged to Alhaji Aminu Dantata.

“And your father was not among, as I was going out from the government house, the late Wase was climbing the stairs through the family wing and your dad came to me asking why his name was not there.

“Then, after climbing one level, the late Wase came to a halt and asked your father, “You are Permanent Secretary Government House, who will receive communication from the villa?” It’s similar to having a chief of staff.

“Then late Wase asked what was happening, I then told him that the DG was insisting that he wants to follow us, he then said he should be included, then I included him,” Ganduje told Nuhu.

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Ganduje explained that after that interaction with his permanent Secretary, he decided not to travel with the governor to Wase.

He said, “In the morning the technical people came, and as they were holding a meeting then I was told that I was being requested to be at the government house, and I asked who would ask me to be at the Government house when the administrator was not around.

“Immediately I entered, I saw the brigade commander, who had taken over immediately and some commissioners were crying, then I asked if it was not an air crash. How can commissioners be crying in government house? I asked.

Ganduje quoted the brigade commander, “Well, my colleagues, the administrator left here in the morning, there was a crash in Jos, and no survivors. I am giving you one hour, to go and get ready so that we go to Jos and sort out the dead bodies”.