Presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, has said the Second Niger Bridge was named after the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and not his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.

Ahmad had shared a video of the 1.6km bridge on social media, describing it as a major connection point between two economically vital regions in Nigeria.

He tweeted, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Muhammadu Buhari Bridge (MBB), a 1.6KM Bridge that will be a major connection point between two economically vital regions in Nigeria.”

However, one Twitter user, @Arizona_CF, objected, saying, “The name is 2nd Niger bridge; any other name doesn’t stand a chance.”

@Greenaetion said, “It is not Muhammadu Buhari Bridge and it can never be. It wasn’t Buhari who initiated the project nor did he use his salary to construct the Bridge. That’s 2nd Niger Bridge or Southern Link Bridge.”

In response, Ahmad tweeted, “So, can we call it Goodluck Jonathan Bridge for sketching the bridge? The bridge is to be called ‘Muhammadu Buhari Bridge’, read the name again and let it sink in your head.”

The Second Niger Bridge is being constructed to ease the burden on the Niger Bridge which links Onitsha and Asaba.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the bridge was performed in 2014 by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/second-niger-bridge-named-after-buhari-not-jonathan-bashir-ahmad/%3famp

Ok

The hate on Goodluck Jonathan is religious to any HausafulaniKanuri Muslim Northerners.
They hate any Biblical name on any major national infrastructure but loves Islamic names on major highways and other southern infrastructures even when the money used for the structures and any other one across the country are from Southern resources.

To the Ungrateful Parasites.....we are coming....!

Buhari won't be president forever so the bridge will be renamed

This had better been fake news sha

Buhari wants to immortalize himself in Igboland.

Chineke napukwa Ekwensu ike.

tamdun:
Shege Buhari
The Jews will never forget buhari in a very long time, the lost Jews have no joice, they'll keep repeating that name "Muhammadu Buhari Bridge" For a very long time, even after Buhari's death

Let's assume this news is real which I doubt, what made you think that the name "Mohammed Buhari bridge" will stick ?

Third mainland bridge was named after Ibrahim Babangida when it was constructed, how many people call it Babangida bridge today..? Yorubas couldn't call it Babangida bridge during the military era, it's now we are practicing democracy you think Igbos will call Niger bridge Buhari bridge ?

The joke is on you...

Second mumu bridge ; renamed it for peace to rain

Now we fight over an uncompleted bridge... What a country!

There's nothing wrong in keeping with the status quo, Second Niger Bridge seem just the best.

Moreover, names are subject to change at the whims of government in power...after all, Tinubu changed Marwa gardens to Abiola gardens.

Google map has already captured it as SECOND NIGER BRIDGE

Or it should be called Onitsha headbridge 11

How will it be called?

Buhari second Niger bridge
Or second Niger bridge buhari

Hope that doesn't collapse it

lonecatt:
How will it be called?

Buhari second Niger bridge
Or second Niger bridge buhari

haha funny

redPUSSY:


Let's assume this news is real which I doubt, what made you think that the name "Mohammed Buhari bridge" will stick ?

Third mainland bridge was named after Ibrahim Babangida when it was constructed, how many people call it Babangida bridge today..? Yorubas couldn't call it Babangida bridge during the military era, it's now we are practicing democracy you think Igbos will call Niger bridge Buhari bridge ?

The joke is on you...

3rd Mainland bridge was named after Babangida

BY WHOM??


Must you lie just to win a silly argument

Penguin2:
This had better been fake news sha

Buhari wants to immortalize himself in Igboland.

Chineke napukwa Ekwensu ike.

He deserves it na
It is his legacy

Factos ... it should be name after Buhari , johnathan can be name after the one he commissioned on billboard.

The northerners have special hate for the southerners, more especially the Christians. This is a religious hate. Sadly, they regard the southern Muslims are second-grade Muslims too. There is on need naming bridges and roads after anybody. The bridge already has a name "2nd Niger bridge". It has to stay that way. Trying to immortalize your name by naming a bridge after you when you didn't initiate and fund the project is sinister.
I don't know why the northerners hate the southerners so deeply but I clearly understand that the hate is passed on from one generation to another. Not all southerners are Igbos. Not all Igbos are IPOB. To hate a region as a result of what happened 6 decades ago when more than a half of the people who witnessed the event are already dead cannot help anyone.
What southerners are agitating for also affects the northerners. They are corruption, lack of insecurity, brutality and poor leadership.

Armaggedon:
Hope that doesn't collapse it

Hmm, that is possible o, with the way Buhari and failure are synonyms

He who laughs last laughs best.

Bullcrap

Well, the people will never pronounce that forbidden name. You don’t need anyone to tell you that.

aribisala0:
3rd Mainland bridge was named after Babangida

BY WHOM??


Must you lie just to win a silly argument

You for ask people when sabi o, the bridge's official name is the Ibrahim Babangida Bridge... But no one calls it that.

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phorget:
Now we fight over an uncompleted bridge... What a country!

Bubu is aiming to complete it before his departure next year, after abandoning it for 2 years in 2015. Just as he did for the Lagos-Ibadan express road.
Not so bad that he only abandoned the projects for a while, and did not cancel them as he cancelled the Lagos metro project in 1984. With expansion to other parts of the metropolis, how much impact would the metro have had on traffic jam over the past four decades?

Instead ThiefNuibu and his rogue proxies have failed to do just one phase of the light rail since 1999 and billions of dollars loans.

That name is not valid in Igbo land

Kwestionair:
He who laughs last laughs best.

Bullcrap

Useless northern entity dragging for everything in this damn shithole, as if oga Jonathan is dragging the second Niger bridge to be name after him. Be as it may Mohammadu Buhari name shall never be recognized in ala Igbo

When fighting, learn to fight with sense. Bashir should not have made snide remarks at GEJ. He should remember that GEJ is his employer's pal as at today.

Secondly, there should not be issues as to the name of the bridge. Complete it first and then, a name will be decided for it. No point fighting over the name of a child not yet born.

success is abt starting and finishing a race!no one honors individual that starts and abandons a project!that buhari did not use his personal money for the project is irrelevant.he culd as well abandon it same way jonathan did,and people wuld only grumble!so,btw the two one is more qualified than the other!

1.6km bridge is taking almost 8 years to construct. Second Niger bridge we know, if you want to name any bridge after bubu, construct one in kastina with your salary

tamdun:
Shege Buhari
The Jews will never forget buhari in a very long time, the lost Jews have no joice, they'll keep repeating that name "Muhammadu Buhari Bridge" For a very long time, even after Buhari's death

You sound very juvenile. How old are you, by the way?

Sooner It will be renamed Nnamdi kanu bridge