New reports say guests got more than what they bargained for at the
much talked about wedding of Goodluck Jonathan’s foster daughter wedding
in Abuja on Saturday.
One of president Goodluck Jonathan’s foster daughters, Inebharapu had
gotten married to her beau, Simeon at the National Christian Centre,
Abuja, but the police, soldiers and officials of the Department of State
Security at the occasion resorted to the use of teargas to control the
surging crowd especially women.
Among the crowd that attended the wedding were a large number of
women, who were conveyed to the venue in their hundreds in long buses
belonging to the Abuja Urban Mass Transport Company.
While scampering to safety, many people sustained various degrees of injury.
A pregnant woman simply identified by her relatives as Oby went into
coma and was quickly rushed into an ambulance belonging to the Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps.
When she could not be stabilised after about 15 minutes, she was driven in an ambulance marked CD 53 A to a hospital.
Good Samaritans helped to resuscitate many other people by pouring water on them.