Chidi Samuel || President Muhammadu Buhari’s undeclared bid to contest the 2019 Presidential election received a boost from unexpected quarters on Thursday following the endorsement of Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi.
Umahi, a Peoples Democratic Party elected governor from the South East gave his endorsement after a meeting with President Buhari at Aso Rock.
He also told newsmen that he would like to seek reelection as governor of Ebonyi in 2019.
Umahi 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.”
Umahi said the people of Ebonyi state are “fully prepared” to receive the president when he visits the State next week.
According to the governor, the President would commission some projects carried out by his administration during the visit.
He said, “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.”