Ex- Governor Suntai dies five years after surviving plane crash
Two days to his 56th birthday, a former Taraba State Governor Danbaba Danfulani Suntai died yesterday in Orlando, Florida, United States. He had been in and out of hospital in Europe and the U.S. in the last five years, after surviving a plane crash at the Yola airport. Then the sitting governor of his state, he flew the aircraft that crashed on October 25, 2012 but managed to complete his tenure in 2015 after being treated for the injuries he sustained. The former governor was born in Suntai, Bali Local Government Area on June 30, 1961 The Aide-de-Camp to Suntai, Mr. Dasat Iliya; his Chief Security Officer Timo Dangana and the Chief Detail, Joel Dangana, were also aboard the private Cessna plane that crashed. Following the crash the ex-governor was initially treated at Adamawa Standard German Hospital in Yola, the National Hospital in Abuja on October 26, 2012 and at a hospital in Germany. On his discharge from the german hospital, he was moved to a rehabilitation c...