President Goodluck Jonathan Friday said he had fulfilled the
promises he made to Nigerians during his 2011 campaign.
He said this while inaugurating a five-seater
air-conditioned passenger inter-city rail transport system that will link
Makurdi, Benue State with Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.Jonathan, who was represented by Vice-President Namadi
Sambo, said the country had witnessed transformation, especially in the
transport sector during his administration. He said, “President Jonathan has ensured the fulfilment of
the promises he made to Nigerians by transforming the country, especially the
transport sector as a critical infrastructure.
“Today’s event is a commitment of our unflinching services.
This transformation is in three phases: System transition, system modernisation
and system stabilisation”.Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State applauded the
President for reviving the “moribund” railway system which he said had been
abandoned for the past thirty years.He said, “Transformation does not need noise. We need young
people to run government, but not old people who are too weak; the old people
should guide us to continue the Transformation Agenda.”
The Chairman, Nigerian Railway Cooperation and former
National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Tukur, said the commitment
of the Federal Government in the railway
sector had boosted the economy.The Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, also charged the
people to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the present
administration in the railway sector.However, some Makurdi residents have described the
inauguration as “window dressing.”One of them, simply identified as Terkuma, asked, “How can a
dead railway system that has been moribund in the last thirty years come to
life in just three days?”
He described the event as a campaign strategy to woo the
Benue electorate.
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