Keffi neighbourhood market commissioned by President Buhari Friday
By Francis Nansak, covering the presidential visit
On the second day of President Muhammadu Buhari visit to Nasarawa State, where he commissioned the newly constructed Keffi neighborhood market and square, stakeholders have poured encomiums on the Executive Governor of the state, Engineer Abdullahi Sule.
The President who was on a two-day working visit to Nasarawa State, has on the first day Thursday, in Lafia, the state capital, commissioned six projects undertaken by both of federal and state governments.
He arrived at Keffi Local Government Area and commissioned projects on Friday, after a gala night hosted in his honour on Thursday in Lafia.
The President thereafter, left Keffi for Karu where he commissioned a mega bus terminal also constructed by the Governor Abdullahi Sule administration of less than three years.
President Buhari said what his generation will not forget in a hurry about Keffi is the aged-long Government College, Keffi.
Stakeholders in Keffi in expression of appreciation on the visit of Mr President, said the Governor has done tremendously well for constructing modern edifices in Keffi and the state at large.
Honourable Aliyu Ahmed Wadada hailed the President and the governor of Nasarawa State for living up to expectations of the people which is in line with the APC manifesto.
Wadada what is the chairman of Puegoet Automobile Nigeria (PAN) added that the modern market as commissioned by Mr President is in line with his vision of economic empowerment.
“This is one aspect in human life that I find very important and any government thinking in this line is a government that has the people at heart which one can not deny from the style and leadership of engineer Sule.
“So to me this is a well thought idea that has attracted the president knowing that it is capable of adding value in the economic development of the state,so we thank the president and our governor for this gesture,” Wadada said.
On his part, a former Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Honourable Othman Bala Adams, was expressly happy with the commissioning of the project.
According to him, Keffi was the only local government council that gave President Buhari a grand reception during his campaign in 2010 where other emirate councils in the state shutdown their gates against Buhari.
“So this is the home of President Muhammadu Buhari and we are happy today that he was here to commission an edifice built by our workaholic governor Engineer Abdullahi Sule,” he said.
