Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi on Thursday said that all is set to receive President Muhammadu Buhari on working visit to the state.
According to him, the President is expected to commission stadium, factory, and many road projects in the state.
He spoke with State House journalists after meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said “I am here to see some of the officials of the Villa because of the coming of Mr President to our state next week.
“We are fully prepared for the visit. We pleaded with Mr. President for the visit and before then we have been preparing, we are fully prepared.”
On the kind of projects the President will commission in the state, he said “We have quite a lot of projects that we have executed within this past two and the half years. We have three numbers of twin flyovers that is built across the African transahara Road running from Enugu to Cameroon passing through Ebonyi State, so we have to build three twin flyover to decongest traffic on that road, each of the twin flyover is 700 metre length.
“We have completed two and the third one is 80% done, Mr President will commission the two. We also have a mall what we call Ebonyi mall that is modelled after the famous Dubai mall. But a kind of microcosm of that microcosm.
“And we intend for the President to lay a foundation stone of that mall which we will like Mr President to commission within the next 12 months.
“Also we are building a tunnel that dovetails into a flyover that is parallel to the existing flyover, that particular junction that is called Akanibium junction, we 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, Mr. President will also come back, he will be commissioning it when he comes back during his campaigns.
“So we will like to make them ready. So there is also a federal Road that is 14.5km that we got the consent of Mr. President to build and the road is fully done. We have 18.5km that is leading to the Federal University, we did that road with concrete and overlaid it with Asphalt, its fully ready.
“We have 15.5km of Nigercem that road passes through the first cement factory in the country which is in Ebonyi State and it’s passes to Benue, we will build the 15.5 km in the axis of Ebonyi with concrete ,ready for Mr. President to commission. 23.5km of state road we built with concrete is ready for Mr. President to commission.” he said
The governor added “We have 500 km of internal roads which we completed in Ebonyi is ready for Mr. President to commission. We have the stadium we remodeled, we have the best VIP stands in the whole country in our stadium is fully air conditioned and all the stands are fully covered. Mr. President will also commission that; we can go on and on.
“We have a minimum of 30km of concrete Road in each of our local government; most of them completed some have attained 80% completion. We have quite a lot for Mr President to commission. We have mushrooms factory, Agric project that I want the president to commission. We have a launch of one man one hectare programme in Ebonyi, we want Mr President to launch it for us.”
Asked if the President told him he was going to re-contest, he said “Well, 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. Since, Mr President is doing his first term and I am doing my first term, it’s my wish to re-contest and I will as well wish the president the same to re-contest.
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