President Jonathan Where Is Thy Honour?
“If I don’t deliver second Niger Bridge at the end of my tenure, I will leave this country and go and live elsewhere because the failure cannot be defended.”---former President Jonathan. On August 30, 2012, former President Jonathan, then sitting President, still basking in the euphoria of the 2011presidential election triumph vowed that he would go on exile if his administration didn't build the second Niger bridge. He made the vow not in Abuja, but right at the heart of the commercial city of Onitsha during a Town Hall Meeting. In tow was Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Finance Minister and Mike Onolomemen, Works Minister, who unfolded details the financing, technical and contracting arrangements related to the construction of the bridge. Peter Obi, then Governor of Anambra State, and all the WHO is WHO in Igbo land were witnesses to the vow. All hopes were raised that the worst scenario would be that by 2015 the bridge would ready for use by motorists and the sufferings of t...

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