ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has said the Second Niger Bridge executed by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is enough for the South-East zone to vote Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC).
Governor Uzodinma said voting Tinubu would continue the party’s legacies.
Uzodinma, who is the coordinator for Tinubu’s campaign in the South-East, stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.
The Governor said: “Senator Bola Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the APC, the party in power. From 1970 when the civil war ended, the Igbos asked for the Second Niger Bridge, government after government came with promises that was not fulfilled.
“The last Christmas was greeted with jubilation; Igbos coming from outside the South-East using the Second Niger Bridge. That is even enough for the whole Igbos to vote for Buhari’s legacy to continue.”
Also, he said most of the federal roads in the zone have received sufficient attention and budgetary commission and commuters no longer suffer as they use to before.
“It is not about whether Bola Tinubu is from the same place with me; it is about the programmes, to the extent that the manifesto of our great party has convinced and endeared the people. I’m very confident that the party to beat in Nigeria is the APC,” he added.
Uzodinma also said he is running a unified campaign for all APC in the South-East, expressing confidence that all the party’s candidates from the governorship, House of Assembly, House of Representatives to Senate seats will be elected.
Recall that the Federal Government of Nigeria on 15 December, 2022 temporarily opened the 1.6 kilometers long bridge to traffic to ease the experience of travelers during Yuletide break, pending the final completion of the project.
The Second Niger Bridge which was first proposed during the 1978/79 political campaign by then-candidate Shehu Shagari of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), links Anambra and Delta States.