Minister of Works, Dave Umahi has insisted that President
Bola Tinubu has broken the jinx of marginalisation suffered by the people in
the South-East region in Nigeria’s political and infrastructural landscape.
Umahi stated this over the weekend during a civic reception
organised in his honour by the Okposi Okwu community in the Ohaozara Local
Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Over the last couple of years, the South-East region has
voiced concerns over being politically and infrastructurally neglected despite
being one of Nigeria’s three major ethnic groups.
However, Umahi, in a statement by his Special Adviser on
Media, Uchenna Orji, thanked Tinubu for ending the years of exclusion through
equitable distribution of the dividends of democracy across the six
geo-political 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.
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.
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