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President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the 800-meter-long flyover in Kawo, Kaduna state on Thursday, recounting how he narrowly escaped a targeted bomb attack in the vicinity in 2014.
Recalling the unfortunate incident that claimed the lives of many innocent Nigerians, the President said he remained grateful to God for sparing his life on that fateful day on Ali Akilu Road, Kawo-Kaduna.
“For many years I have always walked this route and I cannot say how many times I have traveled it. There was an attempt on my life on this road. Nothing has happened to me like the 30 months I spent in the Civil War.
“They wanted to blow up the vehicle I was in around the secretariat but my escort somehow stopped them. But before reaching this bridge (Kawo), they became more desperate and there was a small market in the area where the device exploded. But God protected us and here I am again,” he said.
The President, who also inaugurated the newly renovated Murtala Mohammed Square, the 136-bed Infectious Diseases Hospital, LEA Lokoja Road Primary School, Rigasa, Aliyu Makama Road and Leventis Underpass, executed by the government of state, commended Governor Nasir El-Rufai for completing people-focused projects in Kaduna Metropolis as well as other senatorial areas of the state.
In Murtala Square, the new town center of Kaduna State, President Buhari, while admiring the renovated edifice, recalled that he was forced by family difficulties to move from Daura to Kaduna after being released from custody as a former military head of state.
“I can hardly find my way in Kaduna due to the development going on here and the Governor is committed to changing Kaduna for good and has done very well in that and Nigerians appreciate you writing your story in letters of d ‘gold,’ he said.
In the metropolis, the president also commissioned the Barbedos fertilizer plant, a private sector investment in the state.
Speaking at LEA Lokoja Primary School, the Governor said the project has now been renamed as “Buhari Mega-primary School”.
He said Rigasa residents had been consistent in giving President Buhari 98% of their votes in previous presidential elections.