Tinubu Visits Crash Survivors. Comments On Aviation Sector

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU, THE APC NATIONAL
LEADER VISITS PLANE CRASH SURVIVORS @ LASUTH
Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu yesterday visited the survivors of the
Associated Aviation crash at the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), where they
are being treated.
The aircraft which was conveying the body of the
former Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu and
some others to Akure crashed on Thursday after taking
off in Lagos.
Shortly after landing at the Murtal Muhammed
International Airport, Lagos, the leader of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) visited the victims. He
was accompanied by his wife Senator Oluremi, the
interim spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Speaker of Lagos State
House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji and other
party stalwarts. The former Lagos governor spent
some time at the ward.
He described the death of the former Ondo State
governor as a great loss to the country, describing
Agagu as a good man he will miss despite their
partisan differences.
He said Nigerians should give thanks to God for
sparing the lives of Agagu’s son: Feyi and the son in
law in the crash, affirming that government needs to
fix the corruption and rot in the aviation sector.
Speaking in an interview on arrival at the airport, he
described the crash as a national disaster, and called
on the Federal Government to urgently overhaul the
aviation sector.
He said until professionals are put in place to oversee
the industry, the country may not meet the global
standard of aviation it desires.
Rather than put the right personnel and equipment in
place including a world standard runway, government
he said has used the aviation sector to victimise
perceived political enemies , whose aircraft are either
grounded or recalled mid air.
He cited examples of the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi
Chibuike Amaechi and the Edo State Governor,
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
Asiwaju said “Agagu was a committed family man.
Tunji (Okusanya) was a close friend of every one of
us. But God has done one thing, has shown us His
wonders. In the midst of all of these, Feyi Agagu
survived, his brother in law survived.
“He has given room for us to give thanks to God.
Nigeria’s aviation sector is a risk, we have never
allowed professionals to run the Aviation industry,
and we created too much bureaucracy. Where are the
professionals, where are the engineers? What is the
age of the plane and the records of maintenance? But
when they have already compromised the office, they
waste our valuable lives and time.”
He lamented that corruption has crippled the system,
as according to him, “We have to remove corruption
that is a cancer in our society. We have to remove
ethnicity and clannishness in our society; it is a
shame on our society.”