2nd Niger Bridge: Southeast Played Bad Politics Against Buhari — Ngige

The Minister for Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said that despite bad politics played by the Southeast region during 2015 and 2019 presidential elections,   President Muhammadu Buhari, performed remarkably well.

He noted that he had informed his people earlier about the uncommon projects, even though they did not vote for the President and the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in 2015 and 2019 general elections respectively.

Ngige, who disclosed this on Tuesday, at the inauguration of the Ebele Okeke Federal Secretariat Awka, Anambra State, urged the Igbo to stop playing politics of exclusion and putting their eggs in one basket at every political dispensation.

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“The first Niger bridge was constructed in 1965 under the regime of Tafawa Belewa and that was when our brother, the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was President and that is the product of that political alliance.

“During the Civil war, some portions of the bridge were blown up with mines in order to stop the federal troops from crossing over and after the war a second bridge became imperative.

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“When I was Anambra governor, the then President sent some contractors and said that the bridge would be built and that was in 2005. But this man (Buhari) we brought him here for campaign and I told the people of the South East that this man would construct the second Niger Bridge and rebuild Enugu Airport. We did not believe it but he did it.”

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