Tinubu in Enugu, pledges industrial hub, Eastern railway, coal revitalisation

 


PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Bola Tinubu, has promised to resume Eastern corridor locomotive railway, extending it to Calabar, Anambra and other parts of the Eastern parts of Nigeria, if elected president.

Tinubu also said since European countries still use coal as sources of power and energy, he will reinvent coal mining and usage, pledging that he would create an industrial hub in the South East Nigeria.

The APC presidential candidate also said he will develop two sea ports in Port Harcourt to accelerate business development in the Eastern parts of Nigeria, noting that  he will also encourage agricultural activities if elected as president of Nigeria through the February 25 presidential poll.

Tinubu spoke in Enugu yesterday during the state presidential campaign rally at Michael Okpara Square.

Among the APC Chieftains in attendance at the rally were Governors Dave Umahi of Ebonyi and Hope Uzodinma of Imo State,  Senator Andy Ubah, Gbazuagu Nweke, and the APC Governorship candidates of the party in south east states among other party members from the states.

Tinubu had earlier visited Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu at Chukwuemeke Odumegwu-Ojukwu's Enugu residence, the traditional rulers in Enugu State who converged at the House of Chiefs in the state House of Assembly and also Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi at the state government house.

Spokesman of the Tinubu campaign council in the south east, Dr. Josef Onoh said the rally was the first time an opposition political party in the state was able to shut down the coal city.

At the podium, Tinubu caricatured former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, both he accused of having squandered Nigeria's treasury, but now at loggerheads on who looted the country more than the other.

According to Tinubu: "We have to use what we have, we are still fighting for railway line across the country, to build our deep sea ports, to build our railway lines from Zungeru to Lagos, to Calabar, to Enugu; rail to evacuate our coals to fire our furnaces, to produce electricity and end estimated billing.

"We cannot just export yams and cassava only, we can become agro-processing centre; we have 200 million people to feed and we're not going to starve to death. Go and look at Lagos, it's a state better than some countries. No Igbo man is troubled in Lagos, they have estates in Lagos, they make money there and bring to you down here. If you elect me as president, I will work with you. We can create industrial hub in Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra and Abia states; deep sea ports, two in Port Harcourt. Enugu will become a industrial hub."

Culled from Vanguard

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