By Daniel Tyokua
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike on Tuesday , inaugurated the newly completed engineering infrastructure in Wuye District handled by the Arab Contractors.
With the completion of the project that provided strategic infrastructure that open up the area, which was initiated in August, 2009, has opened up the district for economics and business activities.
Wike said the project was abandoned prior to the coming of President Bola Tinubu’s administration in 2023, due to lack of fund.
He commended Tinubu for showing commitment to better the lives of Abuja residents.
The minister explained that Tinubu’s administration had beat the record by ensuring that people’s hope is renewed.
Wike said, ” I want to challenge everybody who will say in the history of our city, in every administration, who has beaten this record of the Renewed Hope agenda.
“It shows leadership that is committed. It shows leadership that is willing to change the lives of the people. Every time people come to us,this contract was awarded since 2009, but the Contractors abandoned the project because there was no payment. Now the president came middle of the year in 2023. Precisely May 29, 2023. And what did he do?
“If there’s any administration since the creation of the Federal Capital Territory that has done more than what we are doing, let them speak up now. Their silence says it all — this is leadership that is committed, leadership that is changing lives.
“People often come to us to say this contract was awarded long ago. Yes, it was awarded in 2009, and yet it remained abandoned because there was no payment. From that time till 2023, nothing was done.
When this administration came in, the President took immediate steps to revive it”
