“Tinubu’s infrastructural development in Southeast important to Ndigbo” – Ohanaeze
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has assured that the infrastructural projects carried out in the Southeast by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration are vital to the region’s development.
The socio-political group said Ndigbo prioritise these projects more than the proposed single-term presidency made by Peter Obi.
In a statement issued by Okechukwu Isiguzoro and Thompson Ohia, its
Deputy President General and National Spokesman, the group said the initiatives championed by the present administration in the region are in the collective interest of the people.
The group also highlighted some of the key projects in the region including the dredging of the Calabar Seaport and the establishment of a Deep Sea Port at Blue River in Ukwa East, Abia, alongside the reopening of the Standard Gauge Railway Line from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri.
According to the group, failure of successive governments to prioritise the restoration of this vital infrastructure has prevented the Southeast and South-South regions from realising their full economic potential, hindering national growth and prosperity.
“The administration of President Tinubu has demonstrated a clear understanding of the Igbo people’s urgent need for the completion of these critical infrastructural projects.
“These initiatives are not merely a matter of road construction, but of a holistic economic revival—a return to the days when the Old Eastern Region, under the astute leadership of Dr Michael Okpara in the 1960s, was considered the fastest-growing economy in the world. It is this visionary leadership that Ndigbo yearn to reclaim, and it is only through the completion of these infrastructure projects that this can be realised,” Ohanaeze said.
Further commending the Minister of Works, David Umahi for his committment to these projects, Ohanaeze said it unequivocally rejects Peter Obi’s single-term presidential proposal.
“Such a proposal, based on a premise of personal ambition rather than regional development, holds no promise for the Southeast in terms of meaningful infrastructure development or economic recovery.
“The Igbo people, a tribe that has yet to produce a democratically elected Executive President of Nigeria since independence in 1960, cannot afford to waste time on an idea that offers no substantial benefits to the collective advancement of the region,” it added.
The group further called on any politician of Igbo extraction harbouring presidential aspirations for 2027 to reconsider their bids.
It noted that the current robust development in the region is far more reaching than any individual quest to clinch the nation’s number one seat of power.
