Three
ministers disclosed yesterday that they too would have been involved in the
ill-fated Dana plane that crashed in Lagos on Sunday.
They
are Minister of State for Defence, Erelu Olusola Obada; Minister of Transport,
Senator Idris Umar and Tourism, Culture and National Orientation Minister, Mr.
Edem Duke.
Erelu
Obada said she was supposed to board the aircraft from Lagos to Abuja but said
that the plane crashed before it could make it to Lagos to carry passengers,
including herself to Abuja that same day.
Speaking
at the Special Federal Executive Council meeting to mourn the victims of the
air crash, Senator Umar who was the first among the ministers who took turns to
commiserate with the families of the victims said he escaped death only by the
whiskers as he had earlier flown in the plane From Lagos to Abuja.
He
said it was after he stopped in Abuja that the DANA air plane crashed during
its return flight to Lagos.
Mr.
Duke recounted that he was also supposed to be on the ill-fated flight to Lagos
but as providence would have it, he could not make the flight.....