The governor spoke while presiding over the State Executive Council
meeting in Benin City.
He said, “It is true that on December 28, 2013, at about 10am, I was
heading from my village to Benin City to receive the Vice President, who was
visiting Uromi to attend the birthday celebration of Chief Tony Anenih. Even
though he was on a private visit, I am obliged by protocol to receive him.
“I believe somewhere in Ewu, a bus that was packed with goods veered off
its lane and headed straight to my car and hit the car. But for the fact that
the car is armoured, it would have somersaulted given its impact and the bus
driver was clearly on high speed.
“The luck however was that we were not on speed and so it was possible
for the vehicles in my convoy to stop, otherwise, all the vehicles would have
ran into my car and one thing would have led to the other.”
There had been speculations that Oshiomhole sustained grievous injuries
in the accident and that he had been flown abroad for treatment.
But the governor said nobody sustained injuries in the accident.
He said, “All of us in the car; my ADC, driver and me were all having
our seat belts on. The airbags were all activated. Nothing happened to any of
us. I still went to the airport to receive the Vice President after the
accident.
“They say the devil is a liar. It does not matter what they say. God
delivered all of us; none of us was injured in any manner. All those stories
about being hospitalised and being under intensive care in an undisclosed
hospital are figments of the imagination of those who were parroting the story.
“The important thing, for me, is that anything could have happened. The
driver passed the first three vehicles and went straight to hit the one that I
was in. You would recall that on the eve of the campaigns for 2012 election,
that same car was the one I was driving and a vehicle in a similar manner came
and rammed into a car I was supposed to be in.”
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