Tinubu Hails Gov Okpebholo’s Road Projects In Edo

President Bola Tinubu has lauded the infrastructural strides of the Edo State governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, peculiarly the ongoing operation of the state’s first-ever flyover bridge, describing it arsenic a landmark involution successful easing municipality postulation and modernising Edo’s transport system.

The president extolled the governor’s foresight successful embarking connected the one-kilometre flyover task astatine Ikpoba Hill successful Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, noting that its completion would alteration vehicular question and fortify the municipality cloth of Benin City.

Tinubu praised Okpebholo’s aboriginal show successful office, affirming that the politician had acceptable a caller modular of governance successful Edo.

The president, who was represented by the Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi, said the governor’s bold attack to roadworthy and span operation successful the State underscores the All Progressives Congress (APC) progressive agenda.

“This is simply a 24-span structure, each span measuring 20 meters, amounting to a one-kilometre bridge. The prime and gait of enactment are impressive. Edo is witnessing a first, and I judge much specified projects should travel successful Benin City to code the dense traffic,” Umahi conveyed connected behalf of the President.

The curate contrasted the ratio of state-driven projects with immoderate national contracts, lamenting that contractors often show greater subject erstwhile moving nether governors than erstwhile handling national assignments.

He pledged to enforce stricter accountability standards astatine the national level to guarantee worth for wealth and timely delivery.

“I commend Governor Okpebholo for insisting connected factual technology. Roads built with reinforced factual past 50 to 100 years, redeeming scarce resources. Nigeria cannot proceed to walk connected recurring reconstruction. We indispensable put successful durability,” Umahi stressed.

Describing Okpebholo arsenic “a antheral of courage, destiny, and vision,” the President applauded the governor’s interventions connected national roadworthy corridors successful the state. He noted that specified enactment reflects not lone governmental volition but besides a heavy committedness to the payment of the people.

Okpebholo, visibly elated, expressed gratitude to President Tinubu for his unwavering enactment to Edo State, crediting the President’s encouragement arsenic a cardinal origin down his administration’s aboriginal successes.

“We are succeeding due to the fact that of the President’s backing. His DNA of progressive enactment flows successful us. I cannot slumber without reasoning of what to bash for my people. We volition proceed to embark connected projects that straight amended the lives of Edo citizens,” the politician said.

Okpebholo admitted that Edo’s infrastructure had suffered years of neglect, with galore roads washed distant and institutions weakened.

He, however, pledged to rebuild with renewed zeal, assembling teams with the cognition and dedication to reconstruct Edo’s pride.

In a uncommon bipartisan endorsement, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Segun Sowunmi, besides commended the governor’s performance, noting that transformative governance transcends enactment lines.

“When Edo radical are happy, Nigerians are happy. Development indispensable proceed authorities by authorities to genuinely betterment the country,” Sowunmi declared.