Nigeria’s Minister for Labour and Employment, Chris Nwabueze Ngige has lamented the dearth of infracstructure in the South-East geo-political zone of the country.

The minister who stated this on Monday in Onitsha, Anambra State while inspecting the ongoing construction work on Nnamdi Azikiwe Mausoleum however described the coming of President Muhammadu Buhari as the beginning of great things for the Igbo nation.

Accompanied by the Minister for Works, Housing and Power, Babatunde Fashola, Ngige said the Buhari government was doing what it was supposed to do unlike previous administrations.

His words: “South-East has been starved of infrastructure. What successive governments couldn’t do in two decades, the APC government of President Buhari has done in three years.”

Also speaking during the inspection tour, Fashola denied insinuations that the construction of the Zik Mausoleum had political undertones as the project was inherited from the past government which failed to complete it.

“Since 2016, we took over the project. We have not been accused of playing politics with it. It is now that we have completed the project that they are saying it is politics. Well, if this is politics, I am proud of it. It’s development politics and I like that type of politics,” Fashola stressed.