President Bola Tinubu has mentioned the federal authorities would proceed to accomplice subnational entities in offering improvement tasks which have direct bearing on the individuals, simply because the governor of Niger State, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has reiterated dedication to infrastructure and agricultural improvement.
President Tinubu who was represented by the minister of knowledge and nationwide orientation, Mohammed Idris Malagi, on the groundbreaking ceremony of the Bida-Minna 84 kilometer highway in Kajakpangi, Niger State, mentioned dualization of Minna-Bida highway would ease transportation of products and providers, thereby boosting financial and agricultural actions within the state.
The president mentioned the state’s huge lands would assist in boosting agriculture not solely within the state however the meals safety agenda of the federal authorities.
He added that the nation could be self-sufficient in meals manufacturing throughout his administration as a part of the renewed Hope Agenda, saying highway building would save lives and create avenues for better financial improvement.
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, lauded the governor, saying he was pleased with him as an APC governor, sustaining that improvement could be engendered with the appropriate individuals elected into political positions.
Additionally in his speech, Governor Bago mentioned, “As encapsulated in our pact with Nigerlites below the New Niger Agenda, this groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of the development of the 84km normal dual-carriageway with road lights, interchanges and underpasses at each ends of the highway, fulfilling a promise.”
“This undertaking is of paramount financial significance to us as a state. Due to this fact, the groundbreaking ceremony we’re witnessing right now is a paradigm shift from the same old lip service of the previous.”