Photo: Two female accident victims are fighting for their lives at a hospital in Aba following auto crash

Two women are currently fighting for their lives at MAZPA Specialist Hospital, Ukaegbu road, following a road accident involving a commercial bus and a Mack Truck.

 

According to The Nation, the accident which occurred at about 3am Tuesday morning involved a commercial bus with Reg. number Abia 288 YG carrying seven passengers, heading into Aba, Abia State from Akwa Ibom State, and a Mack Truck with Reg number Rivers XY 713 PHC belonging to a yet-to-be identified construction company.

"Eyewitnesses said they were attracted by the loud bang and on realizing it was an accident, rushed to the scene and assisted to take the injured victims to the nearby hospital where they until this report were receiving treatment.

While two out of the victims were lying unconscious in their respective hospital beds due to the impact of the accident and severity of their injury while filing this report, others with minor cuts were nursing their injury at the reception hall of the hospital.

Narrating how the incident happened to our reporter, Patience Abanjoubo said that they were coming from Uruakpa, Akwa Ibom State to go to Good Morning Market in Aba to sell Palm oil, fruits and vegetables that they harvested from their farms.

Abanjoubo further stated that the driver of the commercial bus was subsequently taken into custody by the police."

While attributing the accident to over-speeding and carelessness of the driver, the Aba Unit Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), ACP Okora Awassam, however, blamed the inability of the said construction company’s driver to put caution sign at the back of the truck to warn other drivers of the spoilt truck.

Awassam warned both commercial and private individual drivers against over speeding especially at sharp bending corners and to overtake when the road is safe enough for them to do so. She also said that they would continue to monitor how the patients are responding to treatment.

Source: The Nation

Wike, PDP plan protest to discredit Tai LGA polls result – Sen. Abe

The Media Committee of Senator Magnus Abe Campaign Organization claims it has uncovered another plot by the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to discredit Tai Local Government Area result by organizing a protest march.

In a press statement issued in Port Harcourt and signed by Mr. Parry Saroh Benson, chairman of the committee, Abe’s media group stated that Governor Nyesom Wike had set aside millions of naira from the tax payers money to fund the protest, pointing out that Wike was so obsessed with stop-Abe-at-all-cost project that he would not mind how much of development fund goes into the drain for it.

The statement said Wike had before this time lavishly spent a lot of money to produce a documentary of falsehood and distortion, which he aired on Television stations to discredit the result but could not convince the right thinking citizens of Rivers State.

It stated that while that failed, Wike and his cohorts resorted to using the social media to make unguarded utterances against INEC in order to deter it from releasing the Tai LGA result.
The statement condemned in strong terms the maligning of the INEC Boss, Hajia Amina Zakari, with the intention to intimidate her to suspend the announcement of the result perpetually.

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It said no amount of arm twisting and wrenching by them would stop the will of Rivers South East people from sending Abe to the Senate to continue his good works on the implementation of UNEP report and other sundry interest of the people.

The statement said Wike and the PDP were desperate and treacherous, pointing out that while they told the world and obstructed the elections in the state that the result sheets were fake, they gladly accepted the results from the so-called fake sheets, where the results favoured them.

It further stated that the governor’s desperation had made him to double speak such that at one time, he would say President Muhammadu Buhari had unleashed the federal might on the state to rig the elections, at another time, he would exonerate Buhari.

The statement described the governor as deceptive, inconsistent and incoherent in his utterances.
It said in spite employing violence against Abe supporters, PDP had come to terms that he (Abe) was on ground and was using every trick in its bag to scuttle Abe’s chances of winning the election.

The statement added that Tai LGA election was conducted, collated and the results returned but the announcement of the result was suspended, which made the lifting imperative.

Buhari Meets Wike

Tobi Soniyi in Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met briefly with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The governor arrived the State House around 2 p.m and spent about twenty minutes at the President’s office area.

At the end of the meeting, he declined to speak with State House correspondents as he quickly walked past journalists who sought to know the purpose of his visit to the Villa.