Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomole has revealed that he is not injured or hospitalized after an accident rocked his convoy two weeks ago. The Governor who had been low key since then had sent many speculating that he was either injured or incapacitated in some manner. However Oshiomole appeared at the inaugural State Executive Council meeting for 2014 and laid all speculations to rest.
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. 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 at my car and hit it. But for the fact that the car is armoured, it would have somersaulted given the 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,” he said.
Giving thanks to God for His mercy, Oshiomhole said “all of us in the car, my ADC, driver and myself were all having our seatbelts 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 hospitalized 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,” he added.