President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deserves the votes of Ndigbo due to milestones project his administration have executed in the south east region, the Minister of Works Dave Umahi has said.
The minister made this remark on Sunday in Lagos during a stakeholders meeting on the Lagos/ Calabar coastal road at the Eko Hotels.
The highway is one of the signature projects of President Tinubu, and will pass through Ogun State, Ondo State, Delta State, Bayelsa State, Rivers State, and Akwa Ibom State, before ending in Calabar.
The project is intended connect the western and south-eastern regions of Nigeria and to improve cross-country connectivity and trade relations.
Not a few insist that the project, which will also connect the northern parts of the country should have a solid footprints in the south east.
According to the minister, President Tinubu has done well for Igbo, who must ensure that he returns to power in 2027.
Nigeria’s next presidential election is slated for that year, and there are suggestions that the president could face a harculean task getting re-elected. Amidst the re-electing challenges facing the president, Umahi a former Governor of Ebonyi state noted that Ndigbo are ready to return Tinubu to office by giving him over 99 percent of the votes that will be cast from the region.
Reeling out the administration legacy projects in the zone, the minister said “We have no reason to stop the work” by not voting massively for Tinubu.
He stated that President Tinubu had done what his predecessors in office had failed to do, for this, he must be re-elected by the ‘power of God’.
The minister said, “A man that has the courage to do what was dreamt 45 years back is the only man that will have the courage to finish it.
“I say we must vote for him in 2027. The President must be re-elected by the power of God. Those in support say ‘ hi.
“We have no reason to stop the work but we have every reason to do the right thing and it is not peculiar to that job, that is what we are doing in all the projects.
“We also have some jobs – Enugu to Abakaliki, we have Afikpo-Abia-Okigwe and of course one of the legacy projects of Mr President and so we are not sabotaging the President.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is going to have 99 per cent of the votes of the South-East because he has been very nice to the people of the South-East. They will leave South-West to give us 99.99% (in) 2027,” he said.
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