By Kingston Magare 31.7.2026
Under fire Nigeria’s minister of works David Umahi has called on Southeast Nigerian citizens not risk losing infrastructural development by voting for Peter Obi the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress in the 2027 general elections.
Umahi made the remarks while inspecting the rans-Sahara highway and Legacy projects that cut across Cross River–Abuja. He said he government of President Bola Tinubu was committed to develomental projects in the Southeast and a vote for Obi will put all that into jeopardy.
”I’m asking people in Southeast and Nigeria not to vote for him but to vote for President Bola Tinubu…And I have my facts,”Umahi stated
“All the projects awarded by Tinubu will be completed in the second tenure of Mr. President, let us not take risks. Don’t forget that any other person coming, you have to start with negotiating abandoned projects is not new in this country. But under President Tinubu, there will be no abandoned project. All these projects, all legacy projects, will be completed.
“The Enugu-Onitsha expressway is a success story. By December, that project is totally completed with solar light and tree planting, majorly on reinforced concrete type pavements. And we are going to do tolling there. The essence of the tolling is just for the maintenance of the road and then to have security that is going to be patrolling the road.”
He said that some people have been insulting him for supporting Tinubu and not supporting Peter Obi, his brother, saying that he has no regret supporting Tinubu, who he said is changing the narrative of South East marginalization infrastructurally.
According to him, Section Two of the project, spanning about 168 kilometres through Ebonyi, Benue, Enugu and Kogi States, has also been mobilised after the Federal Government paid 30 per cent mobilisation to the contractor.