Four people have reportedly died from a fatal accident involving the convoy of Ahmadu Fintiri, Adamawa State governor.
A Toyota Hilux conveying a detachment of vigilantes, accompanying the governor while en route Mubi for a campaign engagement crashed around Fadamareke, in Hong Local Government.
Report said the vehicle was speeding while negotiating a dangerous bend, which led to the crash.
Three lifeless bodies of occupants in the van that include Bako Kaura, head of PDP’s informal security arm and another victim identified as Adamu, Kaura’s biological son, have been deposited at the mortuary of Hong Federal Medical Centre.
Five other occupants in the van who sustained varying degrees of injuries, were conveyed in the government house ambulance and another unmarked Hilux van, for treatment in a health facility. Governor Fintiri’s personal physician and head of the government house clinic, Dr. William Teri, who was among the first responders at the crash, also conveyed the victims to a hospital for treatment.
A source at the scene of the accident who helped with the evacuation and rescue effort, however, said “I took out three lifeless bodies, but there’s a fourth that I think can hardly make it out of coma because of the injury he sustained. There were about nine occupants in the Ramp 2 Hilux van the head of vigilantes for the Fintiri/Farauta campaign involved in the accident was traveling in.”
Governor Fintiri, who also helped to coordinate rescue efforts, was disturbed by a tragic death involving his convoy.
Only last week, Governor Fintiri narrowly escaped death when a truck which lost control almost rammed into his stationary motorcade. Unfortunately, two vehicles in his convoy were not so lucky as the truck crushed them.
The incident occurred around the highbrow, Dougirei Hilltop Agga Mosque, where the governor had gone to attend a wedding engagement.
Two policemen who sustained injuries from the crash were rushed to the intensive care unit of the state specialist hospital.
