Igbo Leaders To Jonathan: What We Want From You!
19.05.2013, 11:52 Local
Political leaders of the South-East, Saturday, listed the
demands of the geo-political zone from the Federal
Government to include the Second Niger Bridge, due
attention to roads and solution to ecological problems.
The leaders spoke while welcoming President
Goodluck Jonathan, who was visiting the South-
East, to Enugu, the capital of Enugu State.
The Igbo leaders spoke through Governor Peter Obi of Anambra
State on a day Jonathan fulfilled his 2011 electioneering
campaign promise to the Igbo by completing Akanu Ibiam
International Airport Enugu.
Indeed, Obi referred to the fulfillment of the electioneering
promise when he told Jonathan that the South-East merits its
own international airport to enable the people, being the most
widely travelled in Nigeria, traverse the world to market their
entrepreneurial attributes.
On the Second Niger Bridge, the Igbo leaders said: "The bridge
will serve as an important economic corridor that is at the heart
of a globally recognized emerging industrial hub, not just for this
nation, but for the entire Africa. The salient national benefits of a
second bridge across River Niger cannot be overemphasized.In
our last meeting, you promised to flag off this project within the
First Quarter of 2013. We humbly plead that you return to our
zone in the not-too-distant future to fulfil this promise for which
your commitment is not in doubt."
On roads, they said: "The presence of a good road network. The
present state of most federal roads in our zone remains
deplorable and our people very often use these roads as a
comparative measure of the federal government's commitment to
our zone.
"In this context, sir, we wish to once more as a people appeal for
your due attention to the Enugu-Port-Harcourt, Enugu-Onitsha,
and the Owerri-Elele federal roads, which we have repeatedly
brought to your attention. These roads form a critical tripod in
our national transportation mosaic. Similarly, a critical bridge on
the hump of the federal road linking Abakaliki to Ogoja is in dire
need of replacement."
"The erosional incursions in our five states", the Igbo leaders
said, "seem to have no boundaries. Some work has been done,
but much more remains to be done."

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SAI GOODLUCK AZIKIWE JONATHAN

Why all these demands,when the igbos has the finanncial muscle to execute these projects on their own ...it's now becoming obvious that the igbos prefares to develop another man's land than their own..all igbos in Nigeria and in the diaspora should rally round and build a befiting international airport in the east and stop waiting for Azikiwe jonathan....