David Umahi has dismissed allegations against him, insists ongoing court case will not derail infrastructure mandate.The Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has vowed that no distractions would stop him from fulfilling the mandate of serving God, President Bola Tinubu and Nigerians.
The minister made the declaration on Saturday at the Enugu/Anambra boarder while inspecting the level of progress of work along the Enugu-Awka-Onitsha Expressway.
Umahi was reacting to the recent allegations against him by a woman who claimed that he was owing him.
He said the matter was already in court, challenging those behind the allegations to be ready to prove their allegations in court
Umahi said, “If you’re paid to insult me in social media, it won’t shut my mouth. I’m not at all distracted. Everyone that knows me knows that I’m David and not afraid of anything.
“Some people have asked me… ‘okay let’s settle,’ what are we settling? You don’t play something on nothing. If you want to woo me you have to do that properly. This is a very handsome man, with a very good brain. You don’t go by the side looking for me.
“Meanwhile, the matter is in court, whether you insult or praise me, I don’t want to know. All I know, if you allege, you must prove it in court.
“We’re not distracted from our work. We know we’re engaged in a series of wars because contracts are no longer business as usual. We’re not unaware of that.
“So, wherever the fight is coming from, we’re ready. But we won’t bend the standard. We’ll fulfil the callings of God almighty, the people and Mr President.
While expressing satisfaction with the level of progress of work by both contractors handling the project, Umahi urged them to expedite the process to beat the deadline.
“I’m very impressed with the work so far for the quality of work being done here. The first 20km is completed. We just have only 13km, all of concrete that will last the next 100 years.
“We’ve MTN project which is a total of 104 kilometers. Both Niger cat and RCC are doing good jobs. We’ve seen that within the next two weeks, what would be left of the Niger cat section will be zero and that of RCC is 23kilometers.
“Nobody guarantees asphalt in this country for up to 15years. That’s why we’re insisting on concrete. We’ve seen the beauty of the road we’re building across the country.
“We agreed with the contractors that these roads would be completed by April before the rain comes because we don’t want the rain to touch the roads.”
The minister called the people of South-east to ensure the re-election of Tinubu so he could continue with the good governance he had extended to the region.
“When I plied this road, driving myself, I have every cause to be bolder and tell our people to vote for Mr. President because of the numerous things he has done for us.
“There’s no amount of hate speech or darkening counsel without knowledge that will assuage all the great work the president has done for the region.
“As a governor, there was no single federal government project throughout my eight years and four years as deputy governor as well as four years as party chairman.”