Rehabilitated ICC To Be Commissioned Next Month-Wike

By: Wisdom Acka

FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has expressed confidence that the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja, would be completed and inaugurated by President Bola Tinubu next month.

Wike said this Wednesday, during inspection tour of projects in the nation’s capital.

He inspected on-going projects, including the N16 road with interchange by Gishiri, Judges’ Quarters and internal road networks, all in Katampe district, as well as rehabilitation of the ICC.

He said: “At the International Conference Centre, much work has been done. They are keeping to the time they have given, and it’s a good quality job. By the grace of God, we will inaugurate this.”

“We have gone to Gishiri and the roads leading to the Justices’ Quarters. It’s a good job. I am very much impressed with the progress of these projects. It attests to the fact that this is a quality job being carried out,” he added.

Wike stated that the FCT Administration was up-to-date in funding the projects out of the little resources available, even as he attributed the success to the continued support of the President.

When asked to react to rumours making the rounds that he had slumped, Wike noted that he did not want to give credence to people who were only interested in carrying rumours.

The Minister disclosed that he did not collapse; explaining that the rumour was a distraction from a revelation made by a former Head of Service, designed to make people not to focus on the disclosure.

His words: “There was no time I collapsed, there was no time anybody took me overseas. But you see me every day. The day Mr. President broke iftar on his birthday, I was there. The next day, I led Abuja residents to pay Sallah Homage.”

“We know that we will die one day. Nobody will remain in this World forever, but it is only God that says the day you will die, not any human being to say you will die today or you will die tomorrow. So, you have seen that I am even healthier than most of them who carried that rumour and I will write their condolence letters. I can assure you that I will write their condolence letters. So, there is nothing like that”, Wike reiterated.