President Buhari Loves Anambra State Says VP Osinbajo

The Vice President Osinbajo shared an update about his visit to Anambra State last week, which he had the honour of representing president Muhammadu Buhari and shared the following statement on his Facebook page.

=> Last week, I had the honour of representing President Muhammadu Buhari in Anambra State

Many people know already that our President is a man who loves Anambra State, and if you are looking for evidence that he loves this State, I am sure that you will not look very far.

The first time that he ran for President, his running mate was from this State, yes, Chief Chuba Okadigbo. The second time that he ran, his running mate was from this State also, Chief Ume-Ezeoke.

This government is a government that will do everything it has promised. We are not making promises for nothing. The second Niger Bridge, we have been talking about it for a long time, but for the first time, the President went by himself to negotiate the facility to do that second Niger Bridge. That is why the second Niger Bridge is in our current budget and we have provided for it.

In fact, I am being reminded that just two days ago, the Sovereign Wealth Fund paid N2billion for that same project. (Sum paid to the contractor Julius Berger for early works) We will definitely see our second Niger Bridge, we will not make promises we cannot keep.

When we were talking about railways, Lagos – Calabar railway, under the old administration, they said Lagos will go to Calabar, there was no connection to the Southeast.

It was when President Muhammadu Buhari came, that we re-designed the Lagos – Calabar, in order to pass through Onitsha in the first place. That new design is what we also have- the Port Harcourt - Maiduguri railway, which has a connection to Umuahia, Owerri, Enugu, and Awka. So we will not make promises we cannot keep, we will keep our promises.

This State was the first to receive our Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, we gave this State money first for that programme. And the Programme is in 807 schools, here in Anambra State, feeding young children in primary schools. We have over 103,000 children that are already being fed here in Anambra. The school feeding programme is an APC programme and we have engaged over a thousand cooks.

Also, we have our N-Power programme for young graduates. Already we have employed 4,518 young graduates and we intend to increase the number. We will not make any promise we cannot keep.

Reference: VP Osinbage page