Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Friday, applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for completing the Second Niger Bridge before the expiration of his tenure.
They described the bridge as ‘a key national infrastructure, with immense socio-economic benefits not only for the contiguous states but for the entire nation’.
Ohanaeze made the commendation in a release by its national publicity secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia.
According to Ogbonnia, “The clamour for a Second Niger bridge became necessary shortly after the Nigerian Civil War. The first Niger Bridge was commissioned in 1965, and shortly after, the Nigerian Civil War broke out in 1967.
“The bridge was therefore not exempted from the devastating effects of the war.
The Second Niger Bridge has been a major concern to the Igbo for over fifty years because of two major reasons: apart from the traffic jam on top of the bridge, the greatest fear was that the bridge had evidence of cracks such that the stress of weights on the bridge could collapse all the vehicles and their contents into the River Niger with untold consequences.
