Rotimi Amaechi, minister of
transportation, has defended the planned construction of Transportation
University in Daura, Katsina state, where President Muhammadu Buhari is from.
The construction of the N18
billion project is scheduled to start in 2019.
Addressing journalists in Abuja
on Tuesday, Amaechi said there is nothing special about siting the university
in the president’s hometown since “Daura is also part of Nigeria”.
“The president did not even know
I will choose Daura. The reason, Daura is part of Nigeria. If we sighted it in
Sokoto, it is still part of Nigeria. So why is the emphasis on Daura?” he
asked.
“If I had chosen Port Harcourt,
Enugu, that is the same way I would have chosen Daura. The people of Daura
should not be deprived of these things because the president is from there.”
‘BUHARI’S RE-ELECTION WOULD MAKE
24-HOUR ELECTRICITY POSSIBLE’
The minister added that Nigerians
will enjoy uninterrupted power supply if Buhari is re-elected in 2019.
He said the Buhari administration
has “done so much” in the area of infrastructure and in fighting corruption.
“There is also an improvement in
power. We have from 3000megawatt to 7000 but we are distributing 5000 because
some of the Infrastructures are not in good state but we are slowly fixing
them,” he said.
“The expectation is that it
should be 24 hours power supply but there will still be a gap but if you give
us a second term, that gap will be closed.
“It is also unfair if Nigerians
think the ministry of works is not working. My final year as governor, Energy
wrote that they will take care of 50 percent of the bill and I wrote again to
the federal government but they didn’t reply because I was in APC.
“Now that the federal government
wants to do it, the cost is now N120bn. Buhari government is dealing with
corruption and is building roads.”
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