Dave Umahi wants Buhari to seek for second term in 2019- PDP Governor
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is striving for President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term.
Umahi said he wishes that Buhari would re-contest in 2019, adding that he (Umahi) also wants to seek re-election.
The Governor disclosed this on Thursday, November 9, while speaking to state house correspondents after a meeting with Buhari.
He said, "Any
first-term governor would want to go for a second term. And if what you
wish yourself, you should be honest enough to wish another person the
same.
"Since Mr President is
doing his first term and I am doing my first term, it’s my wish to
re-contest and I will as well wish the president the same to
re-contest."
On the visit of Buhari to Ebonyi next week, Umahi said the people of the state are prepared to receive the president.
According
to him, Buhari will commission some projects carried out by his
administration during the visit, including roads and flyovers.
"There
are quite a lot of projects that we have executed within these past two
and the half years. We have three numbers of twin flyovers that are
built across the African Tran Sahara Road running from Enugu to Cameroon
passing through Ebonyi state, so we have to build three twin flyovers
to decongest traffic on that road, each of the twin flyovers is
700-metre length.
"We have
completed two and the third one is 80 percent done, Mr President will
commission the two. We also have a mall, what we call Ebonyi mall that
is modelled after the famous Dubai mall.
"And
we intend for the president to lay a foundation stone of that mall
which we will like Mr. President to commission within the next 12
months."
Umahi
joins the list of some Nigerians, especially members of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), who are clamouring that Buhari seeks
re-election.
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