How Umahi Earned Tinubu’s Glowing Praise For Work On Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway

Surely, his appointment as Works Minister wasn’t just random, but a well thought out plan by the President, who must have realised that plugging Nigeria’s infrastructural deficit, would do his reputation a world of good.

For Umahi, he must have gotten assurances, for him to jettison an elected position which has a defined tenure, for an appointment where he would have to serve at the President’s pleasure. But he took the job, knowing he could make an impact and boost his reputation.