{"id":60132,"date":"2017-11-09T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=60132"},"modified":"2017-11-09T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:55:43","slug":"ebonyi-pdp-governor-endorses-buhari-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ebonyi-pdp-governor-endorses-buhari-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebonyi PDP Governor Endorses Buhari For Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The governor of Ebonyi State, Mr Dave Umahi has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to contest the presidential election in 2019.<\/div>\n
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Governor Umahi said this during his visit to the Presidential Villa ahead of Buhari\u2019s planned visit to Ebonyi, Anambra and Imo states.<\/div>\n
He told State House correspondents in Abuja\u00a0on Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0that Buhari was very qualified to seek a second term in office.<\/div>\n
Umahi, a first term governor, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also indicated interest for Ebonyi governorship election.<\/div>\n
He said: \u201cWell, any first term governor would want to go for second term and if what you wish yourself, you should be honest enough to wish another person the same.<\/div>\n
\u201cSince, Mr President is doing his first term and I am doing my first term, it\u2019s my wish to re-contest and I will as well wish the president the same to re-contest,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/div>\n
On the President\u2019s planned visit to Ebonyi, Umahi said the state was fully prepared for the visit.<\/div>\n
He said: \u201cWe pleaded with Mr President for the visit and before then we have been preparing, we are fully prepared.\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n
The governor revealed that several projects had been lined up for inauguration by the President during the visit.<\/div>\n
According to the governor, the twin flyovers that is built across the African trans-Atlantic road running from Enugu to Cameroun passing through Ebonyi State will be among the projects to be inaugurated by the president.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe have quite a lot of projects that we have executed within the past two and the half years.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe have three twin flyovers that are built across the African trans-Atlantic road running from Enugu to Cameroun passing through Ebonyi State.<\/div>\n
\u201cSo we have to build three twin flyover to decongest traffic on that road, each of the twin flyover is 700 metre length.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe have completed two and the third one is 80 per cent done, Mr President will commission the two.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe also have a mall what we call Ebonyi mall that is modelled after the famous Dubai mall.\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n
He stated that the president would lay a foundation stone for the mall during the visit.<\/div>\n
Umahi\u00a0<\/a>expressed the hope that Buhari would inaugurate the Mall project when he returned to the state for re-election campaign in the next 12 months.<\/div>\n
\u201cAlso we are building a tunnel that dovetails into a flyover that is parallel to the existing flyover, that particular junction that is called Akanu Ibiam junction.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe want Mr President to lay the foundation stone and that flyover bridge will be named after Mr President and we are sure to finish that project in the next 12 months.<\/div>\n
\u201cMr President will also come back, he will be commissioning it when he comes back for his campaigns,\u201d he concluded.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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