Governor Umahi disclosed this on Thursday while addressing stakeholders of the state and the delegation of the Federal Ministry of Aviation during the flight test that took place at the Onueke airport.
Two Air Peace Hopper airlines, No. 5N-BXF and No. 5-BUY which landed at the airport carried over one hundred passengers from Lagos and Abuja.
According to him, the international airport named after President Muhammadu Buhari will be inaugurated in the first week of May 2023 by the president.
Umahi revealed his preparedness to hand over the airport to the federal government to run, noting that the state government can’t manage the airport.
He further stated that over 400 citizens of Ebonyi State were employed as staff of the airport.
Earlier in his remark, the director of the Civil Aviation Authority, CAA, who was represented by the General Manager of Aerodrome Services, Oladipo Adebayo, described the airport as the best of all the airports in Nigeria.
He applauded the Ebonyi State Government for using high-standard equipment to construct the airport, adding that with such quality materials used, the airport will stand the test of time.
KanyiDaily recalls that Former Kaduna Senator, Shehu Sani had tackled Governor David Umahi for naming the newly constructed Ebonyi international airport after President Muhammadu Buhari.
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