President Muhammadu Buhari will touch down in Ebonyi, today, at the start of his tour of three South East states. The President will be visiting Ebonyi, Imo and Anambra states.
While in Ebonyi, President Buhari will commission some projects carried out by the Governor Dave Umahi led administration. These include roads and flyovers.
In a briefing last week, Governor Umahi revealed, “There are quite a lot of projects that we have executed within these past two and half years. We have three numbers of twin flyovers that are built across the African Trans Sahara Road running from Enugu to Cameroon, passing through Ebonyi State.
“We have completed two and the third one is 80 per cent done, Mr President will commission the two. We also have a mall, what we call Ebonyi Mall, 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 in the next 12 months.”
President Buhari is expected to make a brief stop-over in Imo State tomorrow, before heading to Anambra State where he is expected to participate in the APC gubernatorial campaign grand finale.
Meanwhile, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned the president to stay away from Biafra land. IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, said in a statement that “we (IPOB members) will die with him should he set his foot on the sacred land of Biafra.
“November 14, 2017 will be recorded in history as a bloody day, should Buhari attempt to land on Biafran soil. He is coming to mock us and to urinate on the graves of our 91 brethren his Operation Python Dance II killed in Abia State. He is coming to show us that power belongs to the North and to tell us we are forever slaves.”
