The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the completion of the Second Niger Bridge.
The Nigerian government temporarily opened the bridge on Thursday to ease traffic in the South-east during the festive period.
The bridge will be closed again on 15 January until the completion of “construction works,” according to Babatunde Fashola, the country’s minister of power and housing.
In a statement on Friday by its spokesperson, Chiedozie Ogbonnia, Ohanaeze Ndigbo said Mr Buhari has kept his promise to complete the bridge before the end of his tenure.
“The Second Niger Bridge is a key national infrastructure, with immense socio-economic benefits not only for the contiguous states but for the entire nation,” the group said in the statement.
The group recalled that calls for construction of the bridge followed the “devastating effects of the Nigerian Civil War” on infrastructure which also affected the…
