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Buhari’s Plane Banned From Landing

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10 years ago

November 26, 2014

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), allegedly banned the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Major General Muhammad Buhari (rtd) from landing in Makurdi, Benue State.
Vanguard collected from a certain source that Buhari, together with his associate was travelling from Bayelsa State to Makurdi to pursue delegates of his party ahead of the APC delegates congress scheduled for December but had their flight barred permit to land in MakurdiAirport.
He said “the flight was earlier granted landing permission but we were all surprised when half an hour to his arrival a counter directive was issued mid-flight thereby forcing the aircraft to head to Abuja.
“What they did was evil and dangerous, what if the plane was low on fuel, what do you think would have happened? Desperation has set into our politics, and it is posing grave danger to our democracy.”
Thee Benue State Chairman of the APC, Comrade Abba Yaro, during the telephone conversation with journalists proved the development describing it as regrettable.
He explained that loyalists of the party who had laid siege at the airport Wednesday morning were disappointed and had to disperse when they learnt of the unfortunate development.
“We will certainly react to this ugly incident because what they have done was not only callous and wicked but also unacceptable in modern day Nigeria.”
Execcutives of FAAN in Makurdi on the matter failed all declined to comment on the issue.
With roughly two weeks left for the presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari (retd), and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, intensified visits to party delegates across the country.