The Minister of works, Dave Umahi, has said that the South-East will produce Nigeria’s President someday but not in the 2027 elections.
Umahi, who said this in a statement, appealed to people of the zone to support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid.
He was said to be responding to an online publication titled, ‘The Politics of Asphalt: Why is the South East Missing from the Map?’.
The minister described the report as misleading and inaccurate, stressing that it aimed to portray the Tinubu administration as sidelining the South-East in infrastructure development.
“I understand that politics is now in the air and the chosen path by some persons is to deceive unsuspecting members of the public, look good before the people as one fighting for them and close both eyes pretentiously over the great and selfless infrastructure development Mr. President is doing all over the nation,” the statement reads.
According to the immediate past governor of Ebonyi State, he has mandated all the regional directors of the Ministry of Works back to site across the country to compile inherited but ongoing projects and new projects for Nigerians to appreciate the “huge works” that Tinubu is doing irrespective of who voted or did not vote for him.
The minister stated further that Tinubu is using “fair distribution of infrastructure to reunite Nigerians and renew their hope”, adding that “only those who open their eyes will see the light of change in Nigeria”.
