How 3 Serving Ministers Escaped Death In DANA Crash

Three serving ministers have disclosed 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, Mrs. Erelu Olusola Obada; Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar and the Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Mr. Edem Duke.

Mrs. 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.