The minister of works Dave Umahi has boasted that Igbo people in the southeastern part of Nigeria would give President Bola Tinubu ninety nine percent of their votes in 2027 when the country goes to poll. The president has not stated that he would run again, but no Nigerian president has refused to run for second term.
Dave Umahi was at a stakeholders meeting on the landmark Lagos-Calabar coastal highway phase 1 at the Eko Hotel in Lagos. The two-term ex governor of Ebonyi State, Umahi said that the president must be elected by the “power of God”.
Umahi said, “A man that has the courage to do what was dreamt 45 years back is the only man that will have the courage to finish it.
“I say we must vote for him in 2027. The President must be re-elected by the power of God. Those in support say ‘ hi.”
“We have no reason to stop the work but we have every reason to do the right thing and it is not peculiar to that job, that is what we are doing in all the projects.
“We also have some jobs – Enugu to Abakaliki, we have Afikpo-Abia-Okigwe and of course one of the legacy projects of Mr President and so we are not sabotaging the President.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is going to have 99 per cent of the votes of the South-East because he has been very nice to the people of the South-East. They will leave South-West to give us 99.99% (in) 2027,” he added.
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