This is even as he has lamented the problem of gully erosion facing the state that needed urgent intervention.
Emmanuel spoke with State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, during which he tabled some of the challenges facing the state that needed Federal Government’s intervention.
According to him, on few occasions, major commercial activities almost got to a halt because a major federal road linking the South-South and the South-East collapsed due to gully erosion.
The governor said: “We have problem of gully erosion. If you watch the news recently, you will see a lot of interventions and those devastating menace in some federal assets and roads, which the state government has actually tried to intervene.
“On few occasions, major commercial activities almost got to a halt because a major federal road linking both the South-South and the South-East collapsed due to gully erosion and the state government had to intervene and these things cost a lot of money. Even with that, you still need to carry out your own duty because those things exist within your state and as a state governor, you cannot just ignore some of these issues.”
Emmanuel said the fact that his predecessor intervened in a lot of Federal Government projects in the state and never got refund would not deter him from attending to issues that would affect the people of the state.
“It cannot deter us from still taking up the interest of the people, we ensure that the interest of the people will be uppermost in whatever decision we are taking. My predecessor intervened so much in this problem of gully erosions and the former president Goodluck Jonathan approved some of them,” he said.
Emmanuel expressed delight with the way Buhari had been relating with governors irrespective of political affiliations.
