By John Okoh
Enugu
Former governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, has expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari would win saturday general election.
He also urged the South-East region to support Buhari’s re-election bid.
Chime spoke in Enugu yesterday.
He said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was no longer an option for Ndigbo as the party had outlived its usefulness.
He said that the South East and entire Old Eastern Nigeria needed to be grateful for the infrastructure upgrade embarked by Buhari administration.
“The only way to show appreciation is to support the re-election of the president instead of joining forces with those that held the economy down during their time because the Buhari-led administration had turned the South East to a massive construction site, unlike previous administrations that neglected the area.
“The Buhari administration has taken infrastructure development to the next level in the South East and nobody should interrupt the momentum. Under a PDP administration and not minding that the then president was from the Old Eastern Nigeria, they did not include the Port Harcourt-Enugu-Makurdi Rail Lines when they were reviving the rail lines.
“It was not part of the programme. It is this administration that included it. The then president spent six years in office, yet you cannot give him credit for just one single project in the area.
“Do you know how many times the Enugu-Onitsha Express Road was awarded but nothing happened? Today President Buahri is realising that project,” he said.
