Soludo Appreciates Buhari, Says South-East Are Forever Grateful

According to Governor Chukwuma Soludo, President Muhammadu Buhari will always be remembered by the South-East of the nation for completing the Second Niger Bridge.

Aside from the bridge, which has been finished, Soludo said the area also requires a dredging project to be carried out in order to give the south-east access to the Atlantic Ocean from the sea, a highway from Anambra to Lokoja, a gas pipeline around the south-east, and a rail line infrastructure project.

Days after the bridge’s commissioning, the governor who agreed to an interview with Channels Television praised the Buhari administration for maintaining its commitment to complete the President’s Bridge.

He said: “I had to make efforts to be there personally for the commissioning of that project. It is a major game-changer.

“It is a very important project and we are eternally grateful to President Buhari for delivering on that agenda.”

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He claims that one of the five main projects that the South-East has been clamouring for in the area is the Second Niger Bridge.

He believes the Second Niger Bridge’s completion is a positive start even though there are still other things that need to be done.

“But we are now eternally grateful that at least one of five [has been done],” the former CBN governor said.

“The people of the south-east have cried, we have agitated, we have complained and (did) all we can — over five key fundamental infrastructural provisions that will change the south-east.

“One of such infrastructure is the dredging project, which needs to be executed to enable the south-east to have access to the Atlantic Ocean in terms of access to the sea.

“Number two was the Second Niger Bridge, and three is the highway from Anambra to Lokoja abandoned by the federal government. Number four is the gas pipeline around the south-east and the last one is the rail line infrastructural project.

“Those are the five major infrastructural projects we thought the federal government would have been able to help us kick start, but we are enterally grateful that one out of five has been completed.

“It was a promise made and a promise kept. It is a game changer and it will decongest traffic, and create a twin city between Asaba and Onitsha.”