Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Friday praised President Muhammadu Buhari’s delivery of the Second Niger Bridge, a project he says the South-East region is grateful for.
The Second Niger Bridge was commissioned earlier in the week after years of delay. It is a major route linking the South-East and the South-South.
Days after the commissioning, Soludo, who leads Anambra State – where the project is situated (with Delta State also linked), lauded the Buhari government for keeping to its promise of finishing the bridge named after the President.
“I had to make efforts to be there personally for the commissioning of that project. It is a major game-changer,” he said on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“It is a very important project and we are eternally grateful to President Buhari for delivering on that agenda,” Soludo added.
According to him, the Second Niger Bridge is one of the five core projects the South-East has been clamouring for in the region.
While others are yet to be done, he believes the completion of the Second Niger Bridge is a step in the right direction.
“But we are now eternally grateful that at least one of five [has been done],” the former CBN governor said.
“It is a promise made and a promise kept,” he said, restating that “for us, it is a game-changer and would decongest traffic, and create a twin city between Asaba and Onitsha”.
During the programme, Soludo also lamented about the sit-at-home in the region which he says comes at a cost to the South-East.
The sit-at-home holds in many states in the region and is to press for the release of the leader of the now-proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu.
But the Anambra State governor argues that it comes at a “cost” to the South-East.
“We lose humongously [sic] in economic terms. The cost is huge,” he said.
