WATCH THE VIDEO HERE NaijaOnPoint Nigeria reports that the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi has insisted that President Bola Tinubu has broken the jinx of marginalisation suffered by the people in the South-East region in Nigeria’s political and infrastructural landscape. Umahi stated this over the weekend during a civic reception organised in his honour by the Okposi Okwu community in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Over the last couple of years, the South-East region has voiced concerns over being politically and infrastructurally neglected despite being one of Nigeria’s three major ethnic groups. However, Umahi, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Uchenna Orji, thanked Tinubu for ending the years of exclusion through equitable distribution of the dividends of democracy across the six geo-political zones. “The Minister thanked the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for breaking the jinx of marginalisation in the South-East through equitable distribution of the dividends of democracy,” the statement partly read. Umahi also said that his appointment as Minister of Works, a first in Nigeria’s post-independence history symbolized a significant shift in inclusion. This is coming a week after Umahi declared that Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State will spend eight years in power. “I want to assure you, my dear governor, Uba Sani, that I am also a prophet,” Umahi said during the launch of the second phase construction of the Kaduna-Abuja-Kano road project last week. “It was only David in the Bible that was prophet and a preacher, and God has told me that you will do 8 years, and Bola Ahmed Tinubu will do 8 years,” he said.Umahi has stated that President Tinubu has broken the jinx of marginalisation in South-East.
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