The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has disclosed that the construction of the multi-billion naira Second Niger Bridge has reached 80 percent completion stage.
Ngige spoke on Tuesday as a guest on Channels Television Programme ‘Political Paradigm’.
He said the bridge is among the five legacy projects which the President Muhammadu Buhari administration will bequeath the country.
The other legacy projects, he said, are Lagos-Ibadan-Ilorin-Kaduna road, East West Road, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road and the Mambilla Power Project.
The minister, who blamed APC’s defeat in the last Anambra State governorship election on the controversial primaries that produced the party’s flag-bearer, allayed fears that the setback would affect the ruling party in the Southeast during the 2023 general elections.
“That Bridge has been built. It is now at 80 percent completion. Before it was being built by Public Private Partnership (PPP), but now it is being built from the Sovereign Wealth Fund as one of the five legacy projects that this President is leaving for the country.
“The South easterners have seen that the Second Niger Bridge is being done. He (Buhari) has completed the Zik’s Masoleum. Many Nigerians don’t even know that President Buhari is a Zikist. I know because we had visited Zik’s son, Chukwuma (now late) who was his friend. We visited that tomb before he was elected president.”