- Tony Momoh, a former minister of information, is optimistic that the Igbo will vote for President Buhari in 2019
- He said they will vote for the president to show their gratitude for what he has done for the southeast in the last three years
- Momoh said that despite voting against Buhari in 2015, the southeast and the south-south have benefited a lot from the current administration
A former minister of information, Tony Momoh, has said that the Igbo will show gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari with their votes in 2019 because of the federal government projects in the southeast.
Momoh, who made this assertion in an interview he granted Independent, noted that despite the fact that the Igbo didn't vote for Buhari in 2015, he has done a lot for the southeast in the last three years.
NAIJ.com notes that Momoh said the people in the south-south also failed to vote for president Buhari during the last general elections, but the region has also enjoyed his administration in the last three years.
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He said: "He has done the East-West road. In the southeast now, I saw the minister of state for agriculture commissioning these erosion sites in Aba, Abia state. He also said that about 26 erosion sites are being addressed, whether in the whole of Nigeria or the area, I don’t know but I know when about 11 erosion sites were done. The office of the secretary to the government of the federation is responsible for these erosion sites all over Nigeria.
"The Second Niger Bridge is also being attended to and has been expanded. Also, Onitsha- Enugu road is there, the rail lines projects are also there. If all these challenges are there and for 16 years, APC and Buhari is attending to them now, you think the Igbos are so ungrateful not to recognise that during elections? Do you think the Igbos are so greedy that they will join the ruling party for nothing? Nobody is giving them any money but they are grateful because of the attention being given to the infrastructures in the east.
"The southeast has the highest infrastructural deficit in the country and they are being attended to by the Buhari administration. Do you think the people won’t show gratitude? So, a lot has been done. It is not all negative as some people are portraying the situation. I watched a television programme this morning where people are referring to negative things and are not even kind enough to refer to any positive thing.
"They were saying the president has done nothing in the last three years. There is nobody who can say Buhari has done nothing. In the northeast, we have been fighting a war. The security agencies have been empowered, the economy has been diversified and all loopholes have been plugged."
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, called on the Igbo to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 to pave the way for an Igbo presidency.
Amaechi gave this view at a lecture at the 12th convocation of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state on Wednesday, March 21.
Amaechi urged the Igbo to allow the north see out its tenure in order for the southeast to stand a chance in 2023.
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Source: Naija.ng