For over three hours on Saturday evening, planes were prevented from landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja due to ‘Very Important Persons’ movement and bad weather.
Our correspondent gathered that flights that were to land at the airport between 4pm and 7pm were forced to divert to adjoining airports, while others chose to return to where they came from.
An Aero flight AJ 127 which left Lagos at about 3pm was forced to return to Lagos after hovering in the air at the Abuja airport for over 45 minutes due to presidential movement and poor weather.
The plane landed back at Lagos airport around 5:30pm.
However, the flight later departed for Abuja again at about 7pm and landed safely in Abuja airport at about 7.50pm.
Aero later said, “There was VIP movement and bad weather. The flight later returned to Abuja with passengers.”
Spokesman for the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Mr. Supo Atobatele, could not be reached for comments. Calls made to his telephone lines did not go through.
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Which one is true VIP movement or bad weather.
ReplyDeleteDont be economical with truth .
So manny things are happening in Nigeria, becouse of jst one person they stop other planes from landing.
ReplyDeleteTotal bullshit. The bloody VIPs think they r the true nigerians and the rest r colonial slaves. Make una no make me vex o.I go arm myself o.
ReplyDeleteThis is crazy,I can't understand where we are going in this country,we really need u, the media to help us publicise their evil acts before they kill us all,its definitely the VIP reason and its not new. I prefer to take a flight to ghana from abuja and take another from ghana to lagos than take a direct flight to lagos.
ReplyDeleteVIP my foot its only in Nigeria you see all these rubbish
ReplyDeletewhat is the correlation with the news vip and bad weather. Hmmm does it mean the VIP plane can land even in bad weather and the non VIP cannot land? Haba Nigerians Small small now.
ReplyDeleteLet someone through God's help stop all these slavery attitude now.Everyone that voted these guys in are VIP also.... The person wey no wear shoe before,come get jet now,they take am oppress..
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