All is set for President Muhammadu Buhari’s official visit to Anambra State for the commissioning of a mega project built under his administration in the state.
The commissioning of the Permanent Site of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, NAUTH, will hold in Nnewi on Friday May 19, 2023.
President Buhari will also commission some Sustainable Development Goals, SDG projects at the institution that same day; while the day will also mark the groundbreaking ceremony for the Igwe Orizu International ICT Centre, Nnewi.
Some of the facilities to be commissioned that day at the NAUTH Permanent Site to include Specialty Building, Medical Ward Complex, Accident & Emergency Complex, Mother & Child Center, TRAUMA Ward, Special Treatment Center, Molecular Laboratory, Paediatric Emergency Building, Surgical Ward Complex, Diagnostic Center, Tiled Road Networks 1, 2, 3, & 4, Oxygen Plant, and Cryogenic Oxygen Production Unit, among others.
According to a release signed by the Head of Corporate Affairs Department of the NAUTH, Nnewi, Mrs. M.C. Onwuka, other guests expected at the occasion include the Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, who will be the Special Guest of Honour; the Honourable Minister for Health, Dr. Ehanire Osagie, who will be the Guest of Honour; the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, Odejoke Orelope-Adefulire, who will be the Distinguished Guest; among other expected guests and personalities from both within and outside the State.
The event, which has the Chief Medical Director, CMD of NAUTH, Dr. Joseph O. Ugboaja, as its Host, is also expected to be graced by the H.R.H. Igwe Kenneth Orizu of Nnewi, as the Royal Father of the Day.
This would be the president’s visit to Anambra,after four years.
President Buhari’s last official visit to Anambra State was in 2019, when he visited to campaign and seek votes from the citizens of the state, ahead of the 2019 general election that returned him to second term in office as the country’s democratically elected president.
the Nigerian leader will be exiting office on May 29, 2023, having come into power as Nigeria’s democratically elected President on May 29, 2015.
With just ten days to the expiration of his eight years of two terms in office as Nigeria President, this may be his last official visit to Anambra State for project commissioning in his capacity as the country’s President.
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