Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to complete the ongoing Second Niger Bridge, the Warri Port and some other strategic roads in the state.
Okowa spoke with State House correspondents shortly after a meeting he had with Buhari inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said he decided to visit the President and thank him for the appointment of an indigene of his state as the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation even though he got the appointment on merit.
The governor said he also used the opportunity of the meeting to call the President’s attention to the Gas City Project in Delta State at Ogidigben.
He said the project which was a Public Private Partnership would create a lot of jobs for Nigerians.
He said, “We thought that there was the need for that project to be given some strength and we believe it is in the interest of Nigeria and Delta state that that project is carried out.
“Beyond that too, you are also aware that the Warri Port has come alive and even with the refinery that has started, the Port’s activity has improved, but there is a problem because of the excravos basin.”
The governor said the dredging of the excravos bar would help to improve the port’s activities and improve the size of cargos that come to the port.
He said he also reminded the President of the Second Niger Bridge.
“We also reminded Mr. President about the Second Niger bridge which is also another PPP arrangement and the need for the Federal Government to ensure that that PPP arrangement is strengthened.
“Though work is currently ongoing but we needed to ensure that it is brought to the knowledge of Mr. President, and he has told us that he is receiving information about that and we hope that activities in the field of the second Niger bridge is heightened in the next few weeks.
“There is also an intersection of road between Benin through Asaba to Onitsha, by Igbuzu road which is quite problematic for us. Sometimes you can experience traffic gridlock in that place, sometimes, you find out that the accident rate on that road is much and we thought too that the best way forward is to have an interchange at the point.
“Being a Federal Government road, we do need to seek for presidential approval even if it may have to be at our own cost and that was brought to the attention of Mr. President,” he added.
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