PMB, Nigeria’s Mr Infrastructure Developer – Advocacy Centre

Due to his insatiable lust for infrastructure development in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has been nicknamed, Nigeria’s Mr. Infrastructure Developer (MID), by a pro-democracy group, Labour & Workers Welfare Advocacy Centre.

National Convener of the Centre, Comrade Omobanke Razak, in a one-on-one chat with Worldtopnewsng In Badagry Friday, said, “we arrived at the appellation after critical review of this administration’s dogged commitment to infrastructure development that has been leading to laudable projects springing across the country.”

According to Razak, take it or leave it, Buhari’s administration is not looking back in his determination to leave the country in 2023 better than he met it in 2015, saying, the hallmarks of a successful administration are how infrastructure of that society is developed, admitting that, “looking round the country, we can safely say that, Buhari has not done badly.”

Borrowing from the column of the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the right activist said, “Buhari has been cracking stubborn projects” across the country, enthusing that, “it’s just the beginning,” declaring that, “Adesina has properly hit the nail at the proper place.”

Adesina wrote: “How did you feel watching Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), inspecting the just completed multi-million dollars bridge at Ikom, Cross River State, early this week? Any person of goodwill, not overtaken by bile and ill will, would feel proud to be a Nigerian. Such people would be proud of not just the dynamic Minister, but also of his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Yes, President Buhari is doing great things in the area of infrastructure in the country. Roads, bridges, rail, airports, and the half has never yet been told.

“The new Ikom bridge replaces the old steel truss bridge built 50 years ago, in 1971. Located at Eko-Mfum, in Etung Local Government Area of Cross River State, construction began in April 2017, and the project was completed in March, this year.

“As Minister Fashola said, that bridge would facilitate business and transportation between Nigeria and Cameroon, and generate employment for people. Money truly well spent, even at times of scarcity.

“The new Ikom Bridge, coming after 50 years, is reflective of what President Buhari is doing for the country. He is cracking stubborn projects, initiating some, completing others, and bringing relief and succour to the country.”

It is against this background that the Centre has given reasons the Honourable Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), deserves to be supported in his mandate to develop the country’s infrastructure given to him by his ‘Father,’ saying, it would amount to an understatement to say, infrastructure development is uppermost in the heart of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Fashola needs support and assistance to succeed in the responsibility he is saddled with by his boss,” Razak stated, insisting that, “supporting Fashola on this issue of beneficial projects for the people, undoubtedly, amounts to supporting the President to achieve his desire for infrastructure development for his people!”

Concluding, the Centre leader then thank God for the President for appointing the right man to handle the vital ministries of Works and Housing that have direct duty of infrastructure development, adding that, “Fashola also deserves kudos for not disappointing his boss and by extension, the generality of the people of Nigeria.”