President Muhammadu Buhari is to inaugurate the mausoleum of the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, on December 28.
Minister of Labour and Employment Sen Chris Ngige said this yesterday in Awka, Anambra State.
The Zik mausoleum, awarded in 1997, was abandoned by previous administrations.
Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra Central, Chief Sylvester Okonkwo, and Nze Modestus Umenzekwe, a party chieftain, hailed the President for remembering Ndigbo.
Ngige said part of the President’s achievements in the state was not only completing the Zik mausoleum, but working on federal projects in Southeast, and empowering over 5000 graduates with loans of up to N10 million.
The minister spoke when he was addressing over 3000 trainees at Awka South council headquarters in Amawbia.
Speaking with The Nation yesterday, Umenzekwe said Buhari had promised Azikiwe’s son, Chukwuma, before he died in 2014, that he would complete the mausoleum.
Umenzekwe said: “It was there that Mr. President in discussion with Chuma Azikiwe lamented the ugly state he saw the Zik mausoleum, his last resting place”
“Buhari is one who is very humorous but highly reserved. Without mincing words, he lacks talking from both sides of the mouth”
“Today, that abandoned mausoleum has been completed. The workaholic Minister of Works Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) had made it completed”
“Today, the promise of Mr. President has come to pass.The 2nd Niger Bridge so abandoned like the Zik mausoleum is in progress as dateline for the completion has been announced by the Buhari administration and mobilisation for the job paid”
“Both the Onitsha Port and Dredging of River Niger are in the process. I hail the intervention of Governor Willie Obiano in seeing that Inosi Onira compound of Azikiwe was kept in good shape and order”.
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