By Godfrey Ofurum, in Aba
Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu says that the newly constructed interchange at Osisioma, Aba, entry to the state’s commercial hub, will improve traffic into the city as well as ease of doing business in the area.
Ikpeazu, who expressed joy at the completion of the project, said that investment in road infrastructure is one of the enablers to the five pillars of development of his administration.
The five pillars are education, health, trade and commerce, agriculture, and oil and gas.
Ikpeazu, who spoke on Monday during the commissioning of the Osisioma Flyover named “Okezuo Abia Flyover”, said that the completion of the flyover has given him so much joy that he boldly look at the faces of his doubters and laugh at them.
“This is the time of politics. If you want to contest an election in Abia, you must show us what you’ve done before. From your family show us your work. Don’t paste posters on my flyover, streetlight and projects. Place your posters on your projects, not on my own projects,” Ikpeazu said.
The Abia governor, who attracted the presence of his Rivers State counterpart, Governor Nyesom Wike, to commission the flyover, said that all those who mocked him during the construction of the flyover can now see that he meant business.
“This is a sad day for the Sanballat and Tobiah (detractors), those who called this flyover ‘Centre Table’, this is a sad day for them. I weep for them as they hide their faces in shame. All those who thought this flyover will not come true, my word for you, shame on you,” he said.
Ikpeazu said he deliberately chose Wike to commission the project because Wike is the father and mother of flyovers in Nigeria, adding that there is no better person to commission it other than Wike, whom he described as Mr Flyover.
Wike, while commissioning the project, said that he felt proud to associate himself with Ikpeazu, because the governor has changed the narrative in Abia State in infrastructure.
“I don’t associate myself with those who can’t show anything. Ikpeazu is a man that knows what to do for his people. This is why I said that anywhere Ikpeazu is, I will go with him,” Wike said.
