By Muhammad B Muhammad
Inline with his urban renewal programme, Adamawa Governor, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri Wednesday said he intends to construct another flyover bridge in the state capital before the completion of his tenure in office.
With this development, Adamawa will boast of being the only state that will have three flyover bridges in the entire northeastern part of the country courtesy of the Fintiri administration.
Governor Fintiri made the revelation in an interview with newsmen shortly after inspecting work on the grade interchange at the former police roundabout in Yola which has reached advanced stage of completion.
The Governor noted with satisfaction the quality and progress of the work and vowed that his administration will continue to provide purposeful leadership for the betterment of the lives of the people.
“The whole job is excellent and fantastic and our people are happy about it. We will continue to providing such edifice that will easing the lives of the people by fulfilling our mandate along the way,” he said.
Answering question on why the project is still ongoing despite the present harsh economic condition, the Governor said government has achieved this by cutting down wastages in governance.
“We are cutting wastages and deploying resources into the appropriate channel. We are doing this to revive the state from the suffering we went through such as insurgency and other criminality in the state,”the Governor said.
While thanking the citizenry for supporting his administration, Governor Umaru Fintiri stressed that the government will continue to abide by what people want so as to develop the state for the better.
On the criticism by some members of All Progressives Congress APC against government projects, the Governor maintained that the state has no opposition but noise makers.
He added that they lost focus since when they governed the state as they failed to utilize their tenure to change the lives of the people and put the state on the pedestals of development.
“I will continue to tell you that we have noise makers in the state as far as we are concern. There is no opposition in the state. I don’t see them. I must tell you that there are only people that make noise.
“They were giving this opportunity they could not utilise it. They didn’t even look at this state first for anything. We are here less than three years and people could see something tangible and meaniful projects on ground,” he said.
On his part, the commissioner of Works and Energy, Alhaji Adamu Atiku Abubakar said the grade interchange project is ninety Percent completion and revealed that hopefully it will be completed before 2021 year runs out.
The Managing Director of Triacta Nigeria Limited, Engineer Elie Abu Farahat said the projects will be completed within the timeframe while the company will ensure quality of the work.
Governor Umar Fintiri was taken round the legacy project by Commissioner and Permanent Secretary ministry of Works and Energy, Adamu Atiku and Engineer Suleiman Mohammed.