Ibom Air has given insight into why a passenger who addressed the passengers insisting that Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu should not be sworn in as President on May 29.
The unidentified passenger had raised his voice in the airline’s 6.00p flight from Abuja to Lagos screaming that Tinubu must not be sworn-in as Nigeria’s next President.
The conduct of the passenger, the videos of which have been circulating online, disturbed others who doubted his psychological state and insisted that he should be evacuated from the flight.
On Saturday, the Group Manager, Marketing and Communication, Aniekan Essienette, Group Manager, Marketing and Communication explained that the passenger was evacuated from aircraft because his conduct was unruly and it made others passengers to become nervous.
Essienette explained that the airport security personnel who were invited to intervene had to forcibly evacuate the passenger as he refused to get off the aircraft.
“We wish to inform the public about an incident on our 6 pm flight from Abuja to Lagos on Friday, 31 March 2023
“A passenger stood up and began addressing other passengers in a manner considered inappropriate and unruly, as he was making other passengers nervous.
“Our crew deemed his continuous unruly behavior unsafe and called on airport security to help with the situation. Upon his refusal to stop or disembark peacefully, the security operatives were left with no choice but to forcefully disembark the passenger as a last option.
“We are aware that several videos and reports of this incident are circulating on social media and wish to provide the right perspective.
“Ibom Air wishes to assure our passengers that we maintain very high safety and service standards and will never compromise the safety and security of our passengers.
“We apologize to the affected passengers for the time it took to disembark this passenger, which caused an otherwise on-time departure to be delayed by an hour.”
“No further information has been made available by Ibom Air on the circumstances of the anti-Tinubu passenger.” He said
