- The Movement for the Actualization of South-East Presidency urges people of the southeast to support Buhari for another term in office
- The group hails the president for the ongoing construction of the Second Niger Bridge
- The PDP describes Buhari's visit to Taraba as afterthought
A southeast based pressure group, the Movement for the Actualization of South-East Presidency (MASEP), has stated that the best realistic chance for the Igbo to produce the president of the country is 2023 after President Buhari’s second term.
Leadership reports that the group at a press conference in Abuja recently said the president has done well and should be supported by well-meaning Igbo sons and daughters for another term in office.
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The president of the group, Humphrey Onyima, highlighted some achievement of the Buhari administration to include the ongoing construction of the Second Niger Bridge, power generation and economic growth among others.
He said: “Our main reason is to get the north to see out her tenure and let the South-East take the lead in 2023. Thus, a Buhari presidency would guarantee that of the South-East come 2023,”
“The construction of the three-phase Second Niger Bridge is on course. The bridge will by-pass Onitsha and Asaba to connect to the Owerri-Onitsha expressway at Nkwerre-Ezunaka and, then, cross Atani to the Asaba-Benin Expressway at Okpanam, with a total length of 44 kilometres.”
“To the credit of this government, between June 2015 and July 2017, it has earned $58billion in oil revenue, according to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC.
Power generation is on the rise, as more power plants are coming on stream. The Azura Power Plant in Edo is a great example. Work has started on the Mambilla 3,050 megawatt hydro-electric dam abandoned for the past 35 years, while the stalled Zungeru 700MW hydro-electric power project is due for completion in 2019.
“The transmission and other requirements to operate the 30MW Gurara Phase 1 hydroelectric plant, the 40MW Kashimbilla hydro-electric plant and the 215MW Kaduna Gas/LPG/Diesel power plants will all be completed before 2019.
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“This government has set a target of ending fuel importation by 2019. Licenses have been issued to 10 modular refineries with a refining capacity of 30,000 barrels per day and total refining capacity of 300,000. The pre-fabricated part of Amakpe modular refinery in Akwa Ibom has been containerised and is being shipped to Nigeria,” Onyima said on behalf of the group.
The group said the Igbo ethnic nationality is ready to contribute its quota to the development of the Nigerian state with the likes of Igbo leaders as Orji Uzor Kalu, Rochas Okorocha, and Ken Nnamani among others.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Mohammadu Buhari’s visit to Taraba and the planned visit to other places were killings had occurred as an afterthought.
The Nation reports that a statement on Monday, March 5, by the party’s national publicity secretary Kola Ologbondiyan said it was alarming that the president considered visiting some of these states months after marauders, insurgents and bandits committed havocs in those states.
The party said it was pathetic that in Benue state Buhari summoned the leaders of the bereaved people to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, rather than complying with the age-long tradition of Africans by visiting them.
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Source: Naija.ng