Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said that President Muhammadu Buhari is fond of Anambra State and has demonstrated his love for the southeast state over the years.
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Osinbajo revealed this during an All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders’ summit, according to a statement his media aide, Laolu Akande.
The statement reads in part: “In 2015, people were saying don’t join APC, it is a Northern party or Southwest party. So, some were not convinced that they should belong. It is time for a new beginning; it is time for a new vision, it is time for a new direction.
“I believe that Anambra has a special place in Mr. President’s heart. First, in his political career, the first two times he ran for President, his Vice Presidential nominees were from this state – the late Chuba Okadigbo (from Ekwueme Ogbunike) and Edwin Ume-Ezeoke (Amichi). Aside from that, I am glad that the chairman of our party has noted that the President has appointed Anambra indigenes and implemented projects – the Second Niger Bridge; Zik Mausoleum, (contract originally awarded in 1996, completed and opened by the Buhari administration); the 18km Onitsha/Awka Road, ongoing Onitsha/Enugu Expressway (Sukuk-funded), electrification project at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (making the campus one of the first Nigerian Universities to be given its own independent power supply provided by the Federal Government).
“Anambra is today one of the seven states that has two ministers in the present cabinet. In the Social Investment Programme – under the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme, the number of pupils currently being fed is put at 119,760 in 869 schools, while 1,045 cooks have been engaged.”
