{"id":2945,"date":"2019-02-05T16:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:21:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:21:33","slug":"nigerias-vice-president-safe-and-sound-after-helicopter-crash-on-campaign-trail-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/05\/nigerias-vice-president-safe-and-sound-after-helicopter-crash-on-campaign-trail-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Vice President &#8216;safe and sound&#8217; after helicopter crash on campaign trail: CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria&#8217;s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo escaped unhurt after his helicopter crash-landed on Saturday, his spokesman said.Pictures from the scene showed the helicopter on its side after the incident in Kabba, a town in Kogi State in the central region of Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osinbajo was on the campaign trail for his All Progressives Congress (APC) party ahead of this month&#8217;s general elections, and delivered a speech as planned shortly after the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are extremely grateful to the Lord for preserving our lives from the incident that just happened. Everyone of us is safe and no one is maimed,&#8221; Osinbajo said in the speech, according to spokesman Laolu Akande.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;God has kept us safe and alive, delivered us from death so we can do more for our people and country,&#8221; he said..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osinbajo also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfOsinbajo\/status\/1091712858528931841\">tweeted a video<\/a> of him campaigning, thanking the crew and his well-wishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are safe and sound! Thank you to everyone who has expressed concern and thank you to the crew who managed the situation well,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo escaped unhurt after his helicopter crash-landed on Saturday, his spokesman said.Pictures from the scene showed the helicopter on its side after the incident in Kabba, a town in Kogi State in the central region of Nigeria. Osinbajo was on the campaign trail for his All Progressives Congress (APC) party ahead of this month&#8217;s general elections,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/05\/nigerias-vice-president-safe-and-sound-after-helicopter-crash-on-campaign-trail-cnn\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}