He told reporters after his meeting with Tinubu on Thursday that his discussion with the President which was demanded by the South-East region was in tandem with Tinubu’s promise in his inaugural address to engender national healing and reconciliation.
The Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, has met with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, where he discussed the need to release the detained leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
He told reporters after his meeting with Tinubu on Thursday that his discussion with the President which was demanded by the South-East region was in tandem with Tinubu’s promise in his inaugural address to engender national healing and reconciliation.
Mbah, who described the meeting as heartwarming, said partnership and collaboration with the federal government were critical to actualising his administration’s agenda for Enugu State, especially in the areas of the economy, infrastructure, security, and activation of dormant assets, Independent News Reports.
According to Vanguard, he said, “I came and frankly I brought to the President, the warm greetings and best wishes from the government and the people of Enugu State. But, above all, you may also know already that we made massive campaign promises to the people of Enugu. And we also have expressed a humongous vision.
“Of course, you know that the growth level we have proposed is one that is going to be driven by the private sector and private sector wants the ease of doing business; and one of the core indicators of the ease of doing business is security and infrastructure. So, we also had that conversation with Mr. President.
“And finally, we also talked about the release of Nnamdi Kanu. You know, that the South-East has made a collective demand to have Nnamdi Kanu released.”
“And we basically identified with that and requested Mr. President, who in his inaugural address promised the people that he’s going to engender national healing and he’s going to serve with compassion. So we’ve basically informed him that this would serve as a pointer to his administration’s extension of hands of fellowship to Ndigbo”, he said.