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<\/p>\nObiano gave the commendation when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a private meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n
The governor said he also appealed for more social interventions and projects in the state as well as ministerial and other appointments, NAN reports<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I called the president when he won the election and this is the first time I am seeing him physically since after that election.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I came to congratulate him on his well deserved victory; that is one, then, I gave him update on the Federal Government projects that are going on in Anambra.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, Second Niger Bridge, which is going according to plan; work is going on there very well; the minister of Power, Works and Housing and myself were at the sites recently and I came to brief him fully\u2013that work is going as planned.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecondly, the road they are doing between Onitsha and Awka \u201317.5km- is going on very well, they have stone-pitched about eight kilometers of that road already and they have asphalted four kilometers already; again, I commended him for that initiative.<\/p>\n
\u201cInitially, people thought it was election fluke but you can see long after the elections those works are still going on very well.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The governor said he told the president that the Home Grown School Feeding Programme, N-Power, TraderMoni and other social intervention programmes were going according to plan.<\/p>\n
Obiano said that aside requests, he did promise Buhari that he and the people of Anambra would continue to support him to make sure that he had a successful second term in office.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did ask for appointment too in various areas; the president is a good man and he will look at that request dispassionately and handle accordingly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a hands-on governor; I don\u2019t treat federal government projects as if they are in Abuja, no; I go there and supervise the projects as if it is my own project initiated by Anambra state government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why I gave him update on what I have just told you; because I know he is doing a great work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told my people to know where we are headed that this man keeps his words just like me and he is doing a great work and he is honest, straight forward, his yes is yes, his no is no. So why can\u2019t I like such a fellow?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He noted that there were many federal roads in Anambra requiring attention.<\/p>\n
He added that after the completion of work on Onitsha-Enugu Expressway, he had requested the President to also focus on seven other federal in dilapidated state for over twenty years.<\/p>\n
He said that some of the roads were constructed during Buhari\u2019s tenure in Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and by providence he was the one fixing them many years after.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we did ask for favour in that area; we did ask for increase in the social programmes that the Federal Government is handling; more support for school feeding. Now we are feeding 126,000 pupils every day.<\/p>\n
\u201c So far, about N2.3 billion has been spent by the Federal Government in school feeding in Anambra State \u2013 a very good programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, on the N-Power programme, we have over 8000 youths already employed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYouths that ordinarily would have been doing some other things are gainfully employed by the Federal government; and of course, I did ask for support in appointments\u2013 ministerial, ambassadorial, parastatals and so on so that all of us can move to the Next Level,\u2019\u2019 he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra State has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over the ongoing work at the second Niger Bridge, Onitsha-Awka road project and Federal Government\u2019s Social Intervention Programmes in the state. Obiano gave the commendation when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a private meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[729],"class_list":["post-116947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-willie-obiano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}