President Bola Tinubu has broken the jinx of marginalisation suffered by the people in the South-East region of Nigeria’s political and infrastructural landscape,” says Dave Umahi, Minister of Works.
The Okposi Okwu village in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State had a civic reception in his honour over the weekend, during which Umahi made this statement.
Despite being one of Nigeria’s three main ethnic groupings, the South-East area has expressed worries in recent years about being neglected politically and in terms of infrastructure.
But in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Uchenna Orji, Umahi praised Tinubu for bringing an end to the years of marginalisation by distributing the benefits of democracy fairly throughout the six geopolitical zones.
“The Minister thanked the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for breaking the jinx of marginalisation in the South-East through equitable distribution of the dividends of democracy,” the statement partly read.
Umahi also said that his appointment as Minister of Works, a first in Nigeria’s post-independence history, symbolized a significant shift in inclusion.
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This is coming a week after Umahi declared that Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State will spend eight years in power.
“I want to assure you, my dear governor, Uba Sani, that I am also a prophet,” Umahi said during the launch of the second phase construction of the Kaduna-Abuja-Kano road project last week.
“It was only David in the Bible that was prophet and a preacher, and God has told me that you will do 8 years, and Bola Ahmed Tinubu will do 8 years,” he said.
