Senator Chris Ngige, the minister of labour and employment, has instructed Igbos to refrain from putting all of their political eggs in one basket.
Ngige claimed that the APC-led administration was subjected to ugly politics in the region in 2015 and 2019 and that the party “delivered infrastructure to the region.”
The former governor of Anambra State disclosed this at the
On May 23, 2023, the Federal Secretariat will be in Awka, the capital of Anambra State.
While the APC government built infrastructure in the South East, including as the Enugu-Port Harcourt Road, Enugu-Abakaliki Road, and the Federal Secretariat, Ngige claimed that “we played poor politics in 2015 and in 2019.”
The late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and even Dr. Micheal Okpara did the same thing, and we must return to that old political culture that we left for a long time. “We should not all be in the same political party; some would be here and some would be there. If some people are not in the same party with you, don’t call them saboteurs.”
Notwithstanding the southeast’s hostility to President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the second Niger Bridge was erected, and the Enugu Airport was reconstructed, according to Ngige.
“The first Niger Bridge was built in 1965, during the Tafawa Belewa administration, and it was the result of that political coalition. Our late brother, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, was president at the time.
“Some of the bridge’s sections were mined during the war to prevent the federal troops from crossing it, and it was necessary to build a second bridge thereafter.
“In 2005, when I was serving as governor of this state, the president at the time sent out some contractors with the promise that the bridge would be built. But we brought this man (Buhari) here for the campaign, and I promised the South Easterners that he would repair Enugu Airport and create a second Niger Bridge. He said, “We didn’t believe him, but he did it.
