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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday said the All Progressives Congress (APC) government will fulfil all its promises.

Osinbajo said this in Anambra state while campaigning for Tony Nwoye, governorship candidate of the party in the state.

He told the people of the state that the second Niger bridge would not be abandoned, explaining that President Muhammadu Buhari personally negotiated the facility to fund the bridge.

Osinbajo said the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) had paid N2 billion for the project.

“The APC government is a government that will do everything it has promised. We are not making promises for nothing,” he said.

“The second Niger bridge, we have been talking about it for a long time, but for the first time, the president went by himself to negotiate the facility to do that second Niger bridge.

“That is why the second Niger bridge is in our current budget and we have provided for it. In fact, I am being reminded that just two days ago, the Sovereign Wealth Fund paid N2 billion for that same project. We will definitely see our second Niger Bridge, we will not make promises we cannot keep.

“When we were talking about railways, Lagos – Calabar railway, under the old administration, I will not mention them by name, they said Lagos will go to Calabar, there was no connection to the south-east.

“It was when President Muhammadu Buhari came, that we re-designed the Lagos – Calabar, in order to pass through Onitsha in the first place. That new design is what we also have- the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri railway, which has a connection to Umuahia, Owerri, Enugu, and Awka. So we will not make promises we cannot keep, we will keep our promises.”

Osinbajo reminded the people that the federal government’s home-grown school feeding programme kicked off in the state.

“We gave this state money first for that programme. And we have already in 807 schools, here in Anambra State, fed young children in primary schools. We have over 103,000 children that are already being fed here in Anambra. The school feeding programme is an APC programme and we have engaged over a thousand cooks,” he said.

“Also, we have our N-Power programme for young graduates. Already we have employed 4,518 young graduates and we intend to increase the number. We will not make any promise we cannot keep.

“That is why I am so sure you will be making the right choice, you will be doing the right thing.

“When we made the right choice and voted the APC, we are getting the right results. By the grace of God, you in Anambra state will also get the right results.”