The Enugu State chapter of the
Buhari Support Organisation (BSO), yesterday commended President Muhammadu
Buhari for giving former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, a befitting
burial. The group also thanked the
President for naming the Federal University at Ebonyi State after the second
republic vice president describing it as a befitting way to immortalise the
departed elder statesman.
The group’s Publicity Secretary,
Chibueze Eze, in a statement lauded the president for giving a befitting burial
to an illustrious son of Ndigbo and a Pan-Nigerian who invented the convention
of geo-political zones and who served the country meritoriously as vice
president and in other capacities.
Eze noted that the remains of
late elder statesman was accorded an official reception at the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport Abuja, with the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo
present, while the federal government organised a night of tributes for him at
the federal capital.
According to the BSO spokesman,
the federal government equally sent a high powered delegation led by the Vice
President to Ekwueme’s final burial rite at his hometown, Oko, Anambra State,
last Friday. “During the final burial,
the vice president announced that the federal government has named the Federal
University in Ebonyi State after Alex Ekwueme, AEU, to immortalise him.
“We urge Ndigbo to reciprocate
this gesture by supporting President Buhari who has embarked on the
construction of 2nd Niger Bridge, Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt express
way; for a second term in 2019. Port Harcourt-Maiduguri standard gauge rail line
will soon take off.
We maintain that President Buhari’s 2nd Term
is the fastest route for person of Igbo extraction to be president in 2023.
Accordingly, supporting any other candidate from the North, amounts to entering
one chance bus” he said. Eze reaffirmed
BSO’s conviction that President Buhari was fulfilling his campaign promises to
Nigerians and Ndigbo in particular, pointing out that federal roads “cruelly”
abandoned by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the South-east and second
Niger bridge are now receiving attention.
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