SEDC: Bwala urges Tinubu to exercise caution with Southeast governors’ nominations

A erstwhile spokesperson to ex-Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, statesmanlike candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Daniel Bwala, connected Monday urged President Bola Tinubu to beryllium cautious with the governor’s information for who heads the South East Development Commission, SEDC.

Bwala reminded Tinubu that governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful the Southeast had not done overmuch to guarantee the enactment had a stronghold successful the region.

Posting connected X, helium wrote: “In information of who would caput the South East Development Commission; and particularly fixed the information that APC needs a heavy-road to the southeast, which sadly the governors person not done overmuch but Dave Umahi, I volition petition @officialABAT to beryllium cautious astir information from immoderate governor.”

In July, President Tinubu had assented to the SEDC bill.

The SEDC bill, which was co-sponsored by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, comprises Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States.

The SEDC is expected to negociate funds allocated from the Federation Account for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads, and different infrastructural deficits suffered by the Southeast portion owed to age-long neglect.

The SEDC volition besides tackle ecological problems and related biology challenges that person devastated the Southeast for decades.

SEDC: Bwala urges Tinubu to workout caution with Southeast governors’ nominations