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Tinubu (sitting)Minister of Works· 21 August 2023 — sitting

Engr. David Umahi

Two-term Governor of Ebonyi State (2015–2023). Champion of concrete-pavement federal roads.

The record

David Nweze Umahi (b. 17 January 1961, Uburu, Ebonyi State) was Governor of Ebonyi for two terms before his federal appointment.

His tenure has championed the use of rigid concrete pavement on federal highways, beginning with the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway (commenced 2024) — a project that has drawn both engineering support and contested environmental and social-impact scrutiny.

Sources

  • Federal Ministry of Works — Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway Project Brief, 2024
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.