Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has responded to remarks by Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate Peter Obi, insisting that his authority on infrastructure does not depend on contesting for the presidency.
Speaking to journalists at a construction site on Sunday, Umahi defended the Tinubu administration’s ongoing road projects, stressing his commitment to seeing them completed.
“I asked my brother, His Excellency Peter Obi, for a debate on what I am doing. He said I am not the presidential candidate. I told him I am on the ballot. When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is on the ballot, then I am on the ballot because I don’t want this project to stop. I want it to be completed,” Umahi said.
He dismissed the notion that being a presidential candidate confers superior authority, adding:“To be a presidential candidate is not an achievement. If you go to a site under construction and stand there to say the road is bad, what were you doing? Like the turtle that has been in its shell until the day it is released. I don’t need to be a presidential candidate to educate you, as a professor, on infrastructure.”
Umahi emphasized that his role is to ensure continuity of projects under President Tinubu, urging collective support for their completion.
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