Tinubu has broken jinx of marginalisation in South-East – Umahi

Minister of Works, Dave Umahi has insisted that President Bola Tinubu has broken the jinx of marginalisation suffered by the people in the South-East region in Nigeria’s political and infrastructural landscape.

Umahi stated this over the weekend during a civic reception organised in his honour by the Okposi Okwu community in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

Over the last couple of years, the South-East region has voiced concerns over being politically and infrastructurally neglected despite being one of Nigeria’s three major ethnic groups.

However, Umahi, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Uchenna Orji, thanked Tinubu for ending the years of exclusion through equitable distribution of the dividends of democracy across the six geo-political zones.

“The Minister thanked the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for breaking the jinx of marginalisation in the South-East through equitable distribution of the dividends of democracy,” the statement partly read.

Umahi also said that his appointment as Minister of Works, a first in Nigeria’s post-independence history symbolized a significant shift in inclusion.

This is coming a week after Umahi declared that Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State will spend eight years in power.

“I want to assure you, my dear governor, Uba Sani, that I am also a prophet,” Umahi said during the launch of the second phase construction of the Kaduna-Abuja-Kano road project last week.

“It was only David in the Bible that was prophet and a preacher, and God has told me that you will do 8 years, and Bola Ahmed Tinubu will do 8 years,” he said.

Tinubu has broken jinx of marginalisation in South-East – Umahi