Akpabio Hospitalised Following Involvement In An Accident After Own Car Disobeyed Traffic Light

Immediate past Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has been admitted at the National Hospital Abuja after being involved in a motor accident this morning when own car disobeyed traffic light, then crashed.

The Senate minority leaders siren-blaring convoy was said to have crashed into other vehicles, with the former governor sustaining injury.

The extent of his injury was not disclosed by the doctors at the National Hospital, who claimed that it was the family that had the right to do so.

But Governor Udom Emmanuel has visited his predecessor at the National Trauma Center of the National Hospital.

A witness said Mr. Akpabio was moving in a convoy of vehicles towards the City Gate when his vehicle ran into another car tells PREMIUM TIMES.

“My wife and I were coming from the NNPC Mega Station and we stopped at the traffic light by Bolingo Hotel Junction. When the green light showed and we made to move, there was this siren blaring Mercedes Benz jeep that came from the town and almost crashed onto my car. I don’t know how we dodged but another that was behind the jeep hit the car behind me and tumbled on its side.

“I and my wife rushed out of our vehicle and helped the driver bring out his boss. When we brought him out, we found that it was former governor Godswill Akpabio.

“At the time we brought him out, the siren was still blaring. We put him in the other vehicle and he was rushed to the National Hospital.”

The witness said Mr. Akpabio was badly shaken and was in a traumatic condition when he was brought out of the crashed vehicle.

He said the former governor was apparently rushing out of the city when his convoy beat the traffic and crashed.