Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will complete ongoing legacy projects in the southeast before the end of his administration in 2023. Adesina made this statement on Thursday, March 5th, 2020, while hosting the editorial management of the Orient Daily Newspaper, led by its Editor-in-Chief, Stanley Egbochuku.

Adesina said various ongoing federal projects in Anambra, Ebonyi, Abia, Imo and Enugu states were at different completion stages. He noted that in 2018 the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had listed sixty nine (69) ongoing projects in the region, mainly roads and bridges, funded from budgetary allocations, the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund and the Sukuk Bond.

Last December, I had reason to travel to Onitsha, Anambra State and onboard the flight to Asaba, I remember the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, asking me to thank the President profusely for us on the second Niger Bridge.

The good thing is that the project will be completed by February 2022, as promised by the contractor handling it,

he said.

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